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In this richly layered debut thriller reminiscent of the real issue of missing and murdered Indigenous people, a badass Choctaw detective discovers an insidious plot against her reservation while investigating the disappearance of a beloved champion athlete.
Choctaw Detective Perry Antelope has been with her partner, Sophia Burns, for only six months. Perry is a seasoned investigator while the ex-Olympian shot putter Sophia is a former street-smart police officer. Together, they are an intrepid pair with an established record of success. But when Perry and Sophia are called to investigate the disappearance of Dels Billy, a beloved women’s Indian Horse Relay rider, they quickly realize that it’s not as cut-and-dry as anything they’ve faced before.
Piece by piece, they uncover unsettling connections between Dels’s disappearance and a series of unsolved abductions of women from Oklahoma reservations. But the perpetrator always seems to be one step ahead, and Perry soon finds herself—and her family—in the crosshairs of a ruthless killer. Despite her husband’s pleas for her to drop the case, Perry is determined to prevent Dels from becoming another statistic.
As the investigation deepens, Perry and Sophia follow a tangled web of clues that point to a close-to-home plot more chilling than they could have imagined. Torn between her family’s safety and her duty to her community, Perry must race against the clock, and across tribal Nations, to find Dels before her murderous abductor can carry out their sinister plan.
Review:
You know how sometimes you read a book about a 'current topic' and you just groan, because you know immediately what the outline will be? This is NOT one of those books- the reader thinks they know, but Devon does a great job at providing just the right amount of red herrings, to keep the reader guessing as to whether Del's abduction if part of the ongoing pattern, or something else. I kept stopping and going to search the author's name, for previous books featuring the Perry and Sophia, as I wanted to buy them all, but no, this is the first book! (nooooooo). I hope Devon decides to write more- to give us their backstories and send them off for more adventures, as this book does a great job at bringing all aspects of Indigneous culture to the reader, but in way that is fluid and gives you the info you need, to try to understand what could be happening. The ending is pure made for TV and I hope that this book finds the right producer, so that it can become an awesome movie or series! Do NOT miss this one!!!
About the Author:
Devon Mihesuah is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor in the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas. A historian by training, she is a former editor of the American Indian Quarterly and the author of numerous award-winning nonfiction and fiction works about Native history and culture.
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