Spirit Sickness

Name: Spirit Sickness
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Kirk Mitchell
ISBN: 9781433295973

Author: Kirk Mitchell

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 11 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 03/26/2009

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

In the tradition of Tony Hillerman and Joseph Wambaugh comes this suspense thriller reuniting Bureau of Indian Affairs Criminal Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker and FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, two Native American cops torn between their heritage and the law. A firegutted police cruiser found in a remote part of the Navajo reservation bears witness to a horrific crime. Inside are the bodies of a tribal patrolman and his wife. As BIA Investigator Emmett Parker and FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed know, a cop's murder is never simple, raising countless questions and suspicions. When another murder is discovered, the case explodes into an otherworldly realm. Both Parker, a Comanche, and Turnipseed, a Modoc, are well acquainted with the eerie shadow land between native myth and modern homicide investigation. Now they will have to touch minds with a murderer who has woven personal madness with Navajo myth to create his own realityand with it the need to kill and kill again.

About Kirk Mitchell

Kirk Mitchell served as a deputy sheriff on the Paiute-Shoshone Indian reservations of the desert country that includes Death Valley, and was a SWAT sergeant in Southern California before beginning his career as a full-time writer. This Edgar Award–nominated author lives in the Sierra Nevada of California.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Nora on 2009-05-05 18:38:39

nothing dull about this book. well researched with the authentic feel of the current day issues faced by american natives. very good read.

Goodreads review by Terri

Another book about the southwestern Indians, and written by an author who will "replace Tony Hillerman". Ain't gonna happen. Just because an author writes about the Native Americans in the Four Corners area of the US does NOT mean the story can even rival Mr. Hillerman's. In this case, there are at......more

Goodreads review by Becky

This book is one that stereotypes Native Americans as superstitious, violent, mentally ill and shallow. I was offended. The primary protagonists - a BIA agent and an FBI agent were also stereotyped and vapid. Too many characters, too little character development, and in the end you just didn't care.......more

Goodreads review by Steve

The Gila Monster viewpoint wore pretty thin after awhile. I'm glad Anna & Emmett finally got past this not talking about their feelings portion of their relationship. Plenty of action, not all of it believable.......more

Goodreads review by Ben

Is this a good book? Not exactly. Is the premise believable? I didn't think so. Was it still pretty fun and at least, mindlessly entertaining enough to count for a beach read? Absolutely.......more