Margaret Coel is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of the acclaimed Wind River Mystery novels featuring Father John O'Malley and Vicky Holden (Night of the White Buffalo, Killing Custer, Buffalo Bill's Dead Now), as well as the Catherine McLeod Mystery series (The Perfect Suspect, Blood Memory) and several works of nonfiction. Originally a historian by trade, she is considered an expert on the Arapaho Indians. A native of Colorado, she resides in Boulder.