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Margaret CoelMargaret Coel is the New York Times best-selling author of the acclaimed Wind River mystery series set among the Arapahos on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation and featuring Jesuit priest Father John O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden.

She is a native Coloradan who hails from a pioneer Colorado family. The West " the mountains, plains, and vast spaces " are in her bones, she says. She moved out of Colorado on two occasions " to attend Marquette University and to spend a couple of years in Alaska. Both times she couldn't wait to get back.

Along with the Wind River mystery series, Margaret Coel is the author of five non-fiction books including the award-winning Chief Left Hand. This biography of an Arapaho chief and history of the Arapahos in Colorado has never gone out of print. The Colorado Historical Society has included both Chief Left Hand and Margaret's memoir-history of railroading in Colorado, Goin' Railroading (which she wrote with her father, Samuel F. Speas) among the best 100 books on Colorado history.

Her articles on the West have appeared in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, American Heritage of Invention & Technology, Creativity! and many other publications. Speaking engagements on the people and places she loves best have taken her around the country and as far away as Australia. She visits the Wind River Reservation every year, "just to catch up with my Arapaho friends."

She writes in a small study in her home on a hillside in Boulder. The window frames a view of the Rocky Mountains and the almost-always blue sky. A herd of deer are usually grazing just outside, and one summer a couple of years ago, a mountain lion made its home closeby.

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Her website: www.margaretcoel.com
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Winter's Child
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Winter's Child by Margaret Coel

The Spider's Web
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The Spider's Web by Margaret Coel

Blood Memory
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Blood Memory by Margaret Coel

The Drowning Man
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The Drowning Man by Margaret Coel

The Eagle Catcher
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The Eagle Catcher by Margaret Coel

The Ghost Walker
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The Ghost Walker by Margaret Coel
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Author Signed Hardcover Book.  2006 NY: Penguin  First edition, first printing, fine in a fine dust jacket, signed by the author.  This is a collectible book free from material defects.  Jacket covering services are available for a small fee..

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Girl With Braided Hair, The | Coel, Margaret | Signed First Edition Book Coel, Margaret | Girl With Braided Hair, The | Signed First Edition Copy

Author Signed Hardcover Book.  September 2007 NY: Penguin  First edition, first printing, fine in a fine dust jacket, signed by the author.  This is a collectible book free from material defects.  Jacket covering services are available for a small fee..

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Margaret Coel Bibliography

The Wind River Mysteries Starring Vicky Holden & Father John O’Malley Series

  1. The Eagle Catcher - 1995
  2. The Ghost Walker - 1996
  3. The Dream Stalker - 1997
  4. The Story Teller - 1998
  5. The Lost Bird - 1999
  6. The Spirit Woman - 2000
  7. The Thunder Keeper - 2001
  8. The Shadow Dancer - 2002
  9. Killing Raven - 2003
  10. Wife of Moon - 2004
  11. Eye of Wolf - 2005
  12. The Drowning Man - 2006
  13. The Girl with Braided Hair - 2007
  14. The Silent Spirit - 2009
  15. The Spider's Web - 2010
  16. Buffalo Bill's Dead Now - 2012
  17. Killing Custer - 2013
  18. Night of the White Buffalo - 2014
  19. The Man Who Fell from the Sky - 2015
  20. Winter's Child - September 2016

Catherine McLeod Series

  1. Blood Memory - 2008
  2. The Perfect Suspect - 2011

Other Novels

  • Chief Left Hand - 1988

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