The Spirit Caller (Molly Bearpaw Mysteries) [Mass Market Paperback]

Jean Hager (Author)

Book Description

Series: Molly Bearpaw Mysteries | Publication Date: April 1, 1998

In this novel Molly Bearpaw investigates the murder of a woman who tried to communicate with the soul of a dead Cherokee. But before she can declare the case closed, she must face some difficult truths about her own family.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Of all the many children of Tony Hillerman--Native American investigators walking in the sizeable moccasin-steps of his Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee--Jean Hager's Molly Bearpaw is certainly one of the most interesting and believable. As major crimes investigator for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Molly has a one-room office in the lovely university town of Tahlequah in the Ozark foothills, a gun that she keeps locked in the glove compartment of her car, and a part-time assistant, a law student named Natalie Wind. It's Natalie's eccentric aunt, Talia Wind, who gets Molly's latest case started, when the former New Age disciple turned Cherokee medicine woman is found murdered in a haunted jailhouse. It wouldn't be a modern mystery if Molly didn't have a rich personal life, and in this one she's troubled by past and present relationships. Other Bearpaw stories in paperback are Ravenmocker, The Redbird's Cry, and Seven Black Stones. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Molly Bearpaw, major crimes investigator for the Cherokee nation, is drawn into the murder of her assistant's aunt, killed while trying to put a ghost to rest in the Tahlequah Native American Research Library. The mystery, and murderer, are guessable, and the Cherokee element seems less pronounced than in the three earlier novels. Nevertheless, the characters of Molly and her love, Sheriff Deputy D.J. Kennedy remain appealing. for series fans.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (April 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446605956
• ISBN-13: 978-0446605953
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.8 x 6.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #521,929 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars exciting, November 24, 1999

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Sabrina Hoffend (Koblenz, Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Spirit Caller (Molly Bearpaw Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

I am a German pupil of English in the 13th form who had to read The Spirit Caller in class in 1999. I found the novel easy to read because Hager uses a lot of direct speech and short main clauses which make it easy to understand. The characters are described with a lot of details. Those are helpful to visualize the persons. I believe the novel is exciting, because the reader is hooked by the plot. You get to know almost nothing about Talia Wind's murderer at first. The investigator Molly Bearpaw has got several suspects, but the murderer is only found at the very end. It is interesting, too, that the storyline has got several parts. Molly Bearpaw sees her father for the first time after 25 years plus the unravelling of Wind's gruesome death.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars passion and crime among the Cherokees, November 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Spirit Caller (Molly Bearpaw Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

I believe this novel is very interesting. It contains elements of love, crime, Cherokee culture and a lot of mysterious details. Hager vividly describes the lifestyle and the tradions of the Cherokees. Most of the details taken from culture and geography which are used in the novel are realistically drawn and not ficticious. There are numerous dialogues which help us to understand the characters' motivations. The plot of the story is full of suspense. Until the end you never know who the murderer is. The mysterious element is provided by the ghost in the library. I believe the novel is a good one because it contains so many different topics.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars fun to read, November 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Spirit Caller (Molly Bearpaw Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

I'm a student in my senior high school year at Hilda-Gymnasium, Koblenz, Germany. We read the novel The Spirit Caller by Jean Hager in class (8/-11/99) and got the novel via amazon.com really inexpensively and very fast. First I was not really interested in the novel because our teacher told us that the story is about contemporary Indians in Oklahoma and I thought that would be extremely boring. After browsing through a few pages of the novel, though, my attitude changed absolutely. The story of Molly Bearpaw's life and the answer to the crime captivated me, so that I could not stop reading. Piece by piece the reader slily gets important information which helps to uncover the secret, but until the very last chapter you do not get to know who the murderer is and what happened. By was very rewarding to read this novel instead of always tackling difficult texts because it was easy to understand, we learned something and it was fun to read at the same time!