Wind River Mysteries · Book 17
Killing Custer
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 309
- ISBN-13
- 9780425264638
- Type
- novel

About this book
Killing Custer (2013), the seventeenth Wind River novel at 309 pages, continues Margaret Coel's practice of grounding each mystery in real Arapaho history and reservation politics, with Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley's partnership carrying nearly two decades of accumulated history into the case.
Its place in Wind River Mysteries
Killing Custer is book 17 in the Wind River Mysteries series. It follows Buffalo Bill's Dead Now. It is followed by Night of the White Buffalo. See the full Wind River Mysteries reading order.
The Wind River mysteries follow Vicky Holden, an Arapaho lawyer who returned to Wyoming's Wind River Reservation after a career in Denver, and Father John O'Malley, the Jesuit priest at the reservation's St. Francis Mission, as an investigative partnership that spans twenty novels. Each book pairs a contemporary crime -- often rooted in reservation politics, land and oil rights, or buried family history -- with the real cultural and historical texture of the Arapaho community and the Wind River Reservation…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780425264638