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| Betrayal at the Buffalo Ranch
ISBN: 9780816538324
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Arizona Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Murder; Women detectives;
In Hoklotubbe's solid fourth mystery set in Oklahoma's Cherokee country (after 2014's Sinking Suspicions), series heroine Sadie Walela is dismayed to learn that Angus Clyborn, a new neighbor of hers, plans to create the Buffalo Ranch, a private hunting preserve where guests can shoot buffalo. Clyborn seeks to acquire as much contiguous acreage as possible, by methods both legal and questionable, and erect huge fences. When an unidentified man is shot dead with a homemade arrow on the edge of Sadie's property, she assists her lover, Lance Smith, the deputy sheriff of Delaware County, in the subsequent investigation. Lance soon has other law enforcement problems to deal with, in particular keeping the peace when the members of COWA (Caring for Wild Animals) come out to protest Clyborn's ranch scheme. Along the way to the satisfying solution of the murder, Hoklotubbe explores present-day Cherokee culture. Sadie's witnessing the rare birth of a white buffalo, an animal sacred to the Cherokee, is a highlight. Hoklotubbe keeps getting better in this appealing regional series. (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Sara Sue Hoklotubbe, a Cherokee tribal citizen, is the author of the award-winning Sadie Walela Mystery series, which also includes Deception on All Accounts , The American Café , and Sinking Suspicions . She is the winner of a WILLA Literary Award, a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for best mystery/suspense, and a Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Award for best mystery. She and her husband live in Colorado. |
