Seven Black Stones Hardcover - 1995
by Jean Hager
Two Cherokees die and traditional tribal members become terrified when a pile of stones is found near the victim's home. According to ancient lore, a Cherokee could curse someone using seven black rocks, and within a week the victim would be dead. Cherokee investigator Molly Bearpaw is called in to investigate--and finds she has just one week to find the killer.
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"The Apportioner sees what's going on over there and she don't like it. When she gets mad enough, she'll send a punishment, like she did in the old days. Lot of people are going to die". The words were spoken by Zebediah Smoke, whose ramshackle property bordered the Cherokee Nation's new, half-completed bingo hall. Zeb's listeners, his great-nephew and a retired professor who had come to record the old man's stories for posterity, could dismiss his rantings as an old man's melodrama. But in a matter of days Zeb's words seemed to come true. The first victim was found in his garage, dead of carbon monoxide poisoning. While the sheriff wanted to rule it a suicide and close the case, Molly Bearpaw, whose own life had been darkened by suicide, was sure that this was not. So was the teenage daughter of the dead man. And besides, there was the matter of the seven small black stones left in a circle on the seat of Ed Whitekiller's pick-up truck. Whitekiller had been chronically unemployed and perpetual womanizer. While Molly was suspicious of his angry wife, and his latest lover's angry husband, she couldn't shake the feeling that this was something other than a crime of passion. And when another dead man was found within shooting distance of Zebediah Smoke's shack, she knew that seven black stones would be found there, too. Now, she only had to find out why... Jean Hager's most masterful work yet, Seven Black Stones captures the confluences of the traditional and the modern forces in contemporary Cherokee life. With its powerful sense of time and place and rich characterizations, this mystery delves into the issues between men and women, lovers and family, that are common to us all, and thatforce Molly Bearpaw to find not only a killer, but the truths of her own life.
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- Title Seven Black Stones
- Author Jean Hager
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mysterious Press, New York
- Date 1995-04-01
- Features Dust Cover
- ISBN 9780892965656 / 0892965657
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.35 x 1.04 in (23.57 x 16.13 x 2.64 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Heartland
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Geographic Orientation: Oklahoma
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, Cherokee Indians - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94026821
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 04/15/1995, Page 1483
- Kirkus Reviews, 02/15/1995, Page 184
- Library Journal, 03/01/1995, Page 106
- Publishers Weekly, 02/13/1995, Page 67
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