Wind River Mysteries · Book 12
The Drowning Man
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9780425211717
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Drowning Man followed in 2006 as the twelfth Wind River novel, running 336 pages, with the investigation once again pairing a contemporary crime against the real cultural and historical texture of the reservation that Margaret Coel researched firsthand over the years she wrote the series.
Its place in Wind River Mysteries
The Drowning Man is book 12 in the Wind River Mysteries series. It follows Eye of the Wolf. It is followed by The Girl with Braided Hair. 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 9780425211717