Meanwhile, Vicky's friend Father John O'Malley has his own problems to consider. Caught in a Wyoming blizzard when his truck breaks down in a remote spot, he finds a dead body in a ditch by the side of road. However, when he returns with the police, the body has disappeared - a fact that causes great consternation among the local Indian populace who believe that an unquiet ghost is now stalking them and causing mischief. The author brings together the two strands of her plot in a fashion that proves she is a master storyteller. While it is Father John who does most of the sleuthing in this novel, Vicky and her daughter provide much of the suspense.
Several surprises await the reader, although the novel is far from being a conventional whodunnit.
Rather, it is a mainstream novel draped, very successfully, around the framework of a mystery. It is very highly recommended.