To Make A Killing

As the Cherokee capital Tahlequah braces itself for a vote on the issue of a land grant, a prisoner, drunk and alone in a guarded cell, is shot and killed at close range.

Matthew Thomson thinks he’s just committed the perfect murder, but for one thing: Sheriff Rider has taken it personally as his full-blood deputy, Beehunter, falls under suspicion.

Seeing the killing as an act of spiritual evil Beehunter turns to a medicine man for help in his search for the killer.

Meanwhile the bureaucrats are demanding answers…

Although his assertions of Beehunter’s innocence are dismissed, through ingenious deduction Rider begins to piece the scant evidence together in order to clear his friend’s name.

Despite the ever-tightening noose, Thomson is a slippery individual and soon enough he is across the Missouri border, hiding, waiting, ready to make a killing once more…

Combining murder, politics and the identity of the Nation, this thrilling Western adventure brings to life the rugged frontier through the Cherokee experience.

Praise for ‘To Make a Killing’:

“Conley portrays the rough and tumble frontier from the Indian point of view… Veteran novelist Conley works on three levels: murder mystery, frontier political potboiler, and the search for personal identity.” — Booklist

Praise for Robert J. Conley:

“Conley [is] in the ranks of such writers as… Louise Erdrich… and W.P. Kinsella as literary interpreters of the Indian experience.” — Sunday Journal-Star (Lincoln, NE)

“Conley [is] among the most productive and inventive of modem Western novelists” — Dale L. Walker, Rocky Mountain News

“Conley speaks with a clear Cherokee Indian voice to show how his tribe’s cultural characteristics have survived centuries of abrupt change to give readers an understanding of the fullness and humanity of the Cherokees as a people.” — The Cherokee Advocate

Robert J. Conley (1940-2014) was an acclaimed Cherokee author with over fifty books to his name, winning the Spur Award for Best Western Novel twice, as well as another Spur Award for a short story. He was also awarded the 2014 Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Contributions to Western Literature.

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