Mystery at Little Bitterroot Hook

In one of my previous posts...

http://thejimbuchanannovels.blogspot.com/2012/06/hook.html

I mentioned the fact that my intent in each novel is to develop a hook involving my protagonist's interactions with Native American ancestry, customs, friends and relatives. In Montana Harvest, the hook was Alma's path toward becoming a shaman, and her life and death utilization of what she had learned.

In Mystery at Little Bitterroot, the hook will be fictionalized legend, ḿalyè es šeýiłk. When a person dies a violent death at the hands of another, their life energy escapes to a place parallel to but not of this world. The murder victim's spirit retains the experience of its last moments on Earth and those memories drive it to seek revenge, wrecking death and destruction to all that stand in its way.