Blood Sisters
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women…one of them her sister.
There are secrets in the land.
As an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker spends her days in Rhode Island trying to protect the land's indigenous past, even as she’s escaping her own.
While Syd is dedicated to her job, she’s haunted by a night of violence she barely escaped in her Oklahoma hometown fifteen years ago. Though she swore she’d never go back, the past comes calling.
When a skull is found near the crime scene of her youth, just as her sister, Emma Lou, vanishes, Syd knows she must return home. She refuses to let her sister's disappearance, or the remains, go ignored—as so often happens in cases of missing Native women.
But not everyone is glad to have Syd home, and she can feel the crosshairs on her. Still, the deeper Syd digs, the more she uncovers about a string of missing indigenous women cases going back decades. To save her sister, she must expose a darkness in the town that no one wants to face—not even Syd.
The truth will be unearthed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this excellent series launch from Lillie (For the Best), Cherokee archaeologist Syd Walker investigates the disappearances of several Native American women. Syd works for the Rhode Island branch of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, an agency hoping to rehabilitate its image and establish trust with Indigenous communities despite its original mission to "exterminate Native people, culture, and ways of life." When Syd's old BIA ID badge from a college internship is found inside a skull on BIA-managed land near her Oklahoma hometown, dark memories resurface: 15 years earlier, two men wearing devil masks killed Syd's best friend, Luna Myers, and Luna's family. Syd narrowly escaped the tragedy. Guilt-ridden and haunted by Luna's ghost, who regularly speaks to her, Syd hasn't returned home since. The badge discovery draws her back, and upon her return, Syd learns that her sister Emma Lou, an opiate addict, has vanished, one of many Indigenous women to have recently disappeared from the area. Reassigned to the Oklahoma branch of the BIA by her boss, Syd begins to investigate the women's disappearances, hoping her inquiry might finally bring her face-to-face with Luna's killer. Lillie does an excellent job of balancing a riveting plot with a moving portrait of her troubled lead. Charles Todd fans will want to check this out.
