White Shell Woman
A Shaman Mystery
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Narrated by:
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Romy Nordlinger
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By:
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James D. Doss
The two sandstone monoliths towering over the southern Colorado landscape are wrapped in ancient mystery. To the local tribes, they are the Twin War Gods, sons of the moon goddess, White Shell Woman.
Legends tell of strange happenings in their shadows, of lost treasure and Anasazi blood sacrifice. But it is a much more recent history that troubles former Ute policeman-turned-rancher Charlie Moon, specifically the fresh corpse of a young Native American woman unearthed at an archaeological dig.
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Editorial reviews
Mysterious monoliths in Southern Colorado…legends of a "White Shell Women"...a corpse… If magic and mystery are your cup of tea, you'll love White Shell Women: A shaman Mystery.
Protagonist Charlie has been warned to stay away from the statues…but of course, that only makes them irresistible to him. He does go near them, and in this book you'll find the consequences. Combining ancient and modern mystical elements, Native American lore, and classic mystery-genre tropes, James D. Doss comes up with a really unique story. The narrator here is Romy Nordinger, whose high voice has a certain efficient quality: She bustles, rather than reads the story through.
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Love the characters!
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I will say I had to warm up to Romy. She does not pronounce many Spanish words correctly but if you can get past that, you'll enjoy the audibles.
I would REALLY love it if they did more of the series. I miss Daisy and her side-kick Marie. Charlie's sleuthing out murders, his unfortunate love life and relationships.
This is a great anthropology mystery series!
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What I liked most were the scenes featuring Charlie’s aunt Daisy. She’s a feisty elder Ute, and she brings a touch of humor as well as Shaman beliefs to the story. Ross managed to play with the mysticism a little too, to show how many of us can on the one hand imagine - or on the other, fail to acknowledge - the existence of otherworldly spirits and beings. The mystery itself was okay.
The dated scenes featuring the dim and self-absorbed female grad student dragged the book down for me. I mean, that’s just not typical of a grad student of any decade and especially not in a field like archeology. But some readers might like the humor of the hapless young woman accidentally causing trouble for our detective hero and his poor love life. Similarly, the bad FBI agents felt overplayed to me, but some might find the scenes funny.
I don’t recall any foul language or sex scenes. There is one usage of a slur for illegal immigrants, by a character who is not meant to be likeable. I’d call these cozy-adjacent if not outright cozies.
On the whole I might try one or two others either much earlier or later in the series, to see if they feature more of the aunt.
An okay story
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Might've been a good story, but...
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