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| Sinking Suspicions
ISBN: 9780816598717
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Arizona Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Women detectives -- Fiction; Theft -- Fiction; Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction;
Set in 2004, Hoklotubbe's amiable third Sadie Walela mystery (after 2011's The American Cafe) finds the Oklahoma Cherokee pursing a new career as a travel agent. When Sadie is on an introductory trip to Maui to meet the folks at Playin' in Paradise Travel, her neighbor, WWII vet Buck Skinner, goes missing. Buck's troubles with the IRS and the discovery of a pair of murder victims turn the search for Buck into a manhunt led by Delaware County's Sheriff Percy O'Leary and aided by Sadie's lover, Lance Smith, police chief of Liberty, Okla. In Hawaii, Sadie meets a young woman, Pua Keola, whose mother, Tutu Lehua, shares some WWII reminiscences that point to a startling personal connection. On returning home, Sadie joins the hunt for Buck in an effort to prove him innocent of the murders, but her relationship with Lance suffers in the process. New readers will want to seek out the author's earlier novels. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Sara Sue Hoklotubbe, a Cherokee tribal citizen, is the author of the award-winning Sadie Walela Mystery series. The American Café received the New Mexico-Arizona Mystery Book of the Year Award, the WILLA Literary Award, and the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Mystery of the Year Award. Sara won the Writer of the Year Award from Wordcraft Circle for Deception on All Accounts . She and her husband live in Colorado. |
