I still prefer Tony Hillerman, but if you like Hillerman, you'll probably like this.

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Fabulous book, fabulous start to the series. The characters, both main and secondary, and even the this-book-only characters, are well developed. The plot is well textured and the scenes between Anna and Reuben are intense! Emmett is awesome, as is anna.

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Wow. I really enjoyed this book. I enjoy Tony Hillerman and have enjoyed a previous series by Mitchell about Basques in Nevada, if I recall correctly. In this one, a veteran Comanche BIA cop and a female rookie Modoc FBI agent team up to investigate a murder that turns out to be involved with Indian casinos. The Indian culture and its influence on the thinking of the cops and the bad guys is fascinating.

I also was extremely interested in the setting in the high California desert (a favorite location for Mitchell) and on the Havasupai reservation in the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

I highly recommend this book and can't wait for the next one in the series to come in the mail--I just ordered it.

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A fast moving mystery that takes place on the Havasupai reservation in Arizona. Great read!

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First in the gripping series featuring Anna Turnipseed (Modoc Indian FBI agent) and Emmett Quanah Parker (Comanche BIA agent). Very well written, requires attention or you will miss subtle clues. I am working my way through the series.

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The printed review on the front cover states: "Tony Hillerman, watch your back." Well, Tony's dead now, but if he were alive, in my opinion he'd have no worries. His stories were much better than Mitchell's. At least from this, the first book in the series, I've read.

While an interesting story, Mitchell takes on too much. As opponents to the "good guys," he brings in corrupt American Indian police, the Mafia, Jamaican crime syndicates, and some FBI types he needs his hero to outshine. On top of all that, he brings in mystic Indian 'warriors' who are still fighting the "Long Knives."

Hillerman's stories are better with less.

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This is the first book in a series featuring Anna Turnipseed (Modoc Indian FBI agent) and Emmett Quanah Parker (Comanche BIA agent). Of course this series will draw comparisons to Tony Hillerman. Overall, I enjoyed this one as Parker and Turnipseed look into the brutal murder of a female BLM agent who was found on a remote Havasupai Indian Reservation with her face and teeth removed! This leads on to an inside look at Native American gaming and its affect on the Native American people on the reservations including a powerful influence by the Jamaican mafia. Parker ends up meeting an old nemesis who he had faced at Wounded Knee in South Dakota 10 years earlier and who had kidnapped Turnipseed while she was undercover at a Shoshone casino. Some very tense moments throughout the novel which I would recommend and I will be looking for the next in the series: Spirit Sickness.

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