Order of Margaret Coel Books

Margaret Coel is an American author of detective fiction and mystery novels. She writes two different series – the Wind River Reservation series featuring Father John O’Malley and Vicky Holden and her newer Catherine McLeod series.

Margaret wrote a couple of non-fiction books in the 80’s, but didn’t start as a novelist until The Eagle Catcher in 1995. Below is a list of Margaret Coel’s books in order of when they were originally released (and in chronological order):

Publication Order of Wind River Reservation Books

The Eagle Catcher	(1995)
The Ghost Walker	(1996)
The Dream Stalker	(1997)
The Lost Bird	(1999)
The Story Teller	(1999)
The Spirit Woman	(2000)
The Thunder Keeper	(2001)
The Shadow Dancer	(2002)
Killing Raven	(2003)
Wife of Moon	(2004)
Eye of the Wolf	(2005)
The Drowning Man	(2006)
The Girl With Braided Hair	(2007)
The Silent Spirit	(2009)
The Spider's Web	(2010)
Buffalo Bill's Dead Now	(2012)
Killing Custer	(2013)
Night of the White Buffalo	(2014)
The Man Who Fell from the Sky	(2015)
Winter's Child	(2016)

Publication Order of Catherine McLeod Books

Blood Memory	(2008)
The Perfect Suspect	(2011)

Publication Order of Arapaho Ten Commandments Books

Chief Left Hand, Southern Arapaho	(1981)
Hole in the Wall	(1998)
Honor	(1999)
Stolen Smoke	(2000)
The Woman Who Climbed to the Sky	(2001)
My Last Goodbye	(2002)
Bad Heart	(2004)
Nobody's Going to Cry	(2006)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Man Found Dead in Park

(2017)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Watching Eagles Soar: Stories from the Wind River and Beyond

(2011)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Goin' Railroading	(1985)
The Tivoli: Bavaria in the Rockies	(1985)

Publication Order of World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories Books

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 1	(2000)
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2	(2000)
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3	(2002)
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 4	(2003)
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 5	(2004)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Women Before the Bench	(2001)
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3	(2002)
The Sunken Sailor	(2004)
Wild Crimes	(2004)
Ghost Towns	(2010)

Note: The Sunken Sailor is a collaborative novel that also contains contributions by Simon Brett, Jan Burke, Dorothy Cannell, Deborah Crombie, Eileen Dreyer, Carolyn Hart, Edward Marston, Francine Mathews, Sharan Newman, Alexandra Ripley, Walter Satterthwait, Sarah Smith and Carolyn Wheat.

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