The Girl With Braided Hair — Margaret Coel

In 1973, Liz Plenty Horses was involved with the militant American Indian Movement--helping several members wanted by the FBI blend in with her people on the Wind River Reservation. But when one of them was found and shot to death by the police, Liz was accused of being an informant--and fled with her baby daughter, never to be seen again.

Now, the remains of a skeleton with a gunshot wound in the back of its skull have been discovered at the bottom of a remote ravine just outside the reservation. The body was that of an Indian woman who was murdered sometime in 1973. With the police reluctant to pursue an investigation, Vicky and Father John attempt to unravel the truth--only to incite the malice of a killer from the past...