“Forgive my petulance this evening, Mr. Parker. I have this
overwhelming feeling I’ll be out of a job this time next week.’
‘Well, you were looking for a job when you found this one, right?’”
Author, Kirk Mitchell, possesses a law-enforcement background and a familiarity
with the areas of which he writes. This was the inaugural volume of a modern-day
mystery-series featuring Bureau of Indian Affairs investigator, Emmett Quanah
Parker of the Comanche tribe, and mixed-race FBI agent Anna Turnipseed.
A body that has been bizarrely mutilated is found in the Havasupai
Nation, this is the incident that brings together our protagonists.
Mitchell gets the law enforcement turf wars down pat but even more interesting
is the almost otherworldly interactions between different tribes. He gets the “All
Indians ain’t the same” correct and walks our characters through the heady atmosphere
of tribal politics and even deeper tribal belongings that manifest behavior
hard to understand to an outside homogenized culture.
While the mystery works, I’ll admit that it was the insight and depth of
this unusual setting that truly held my interest.
A worthy read for fans of Hillerman.
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