It’s clear from the jump that this is a complicated case-the serial killer carefully selects his victims based on their ancestry/blood, kills them, and keeps a souvenir from the body. Despite being ordered to close the seemingly open and shut case, Matthews pursues an investigation that leads to the discoveries that autopsies have been falsified, a clandestine federal investigation is in progress on the reservation, and a dangerous serial killer stalks the reservation. Nicky Matthews perceives that the company line of relapsed-drug-addict-passes-out-on-the-train-tracks is a cover up for something much more sinister than the drug scourge that claims so many lives on the reservation. When a reported missing person turns up dead in a train-pedestrian accident, Sgt.
I liked the setting on a pueblo, I liked that the characters were Native Americans and that some of them were officers on the pueblo’s tribal police force, and I liked the aspects of Native culture and mythology that became part of the story. I first stumbled on an eBook copy in an eLibrary where I read the first chapter or so and then added the book to my request list. This mystery/suspense/thriller is set on the fictional Fire Sky Reservation in New Mexico. I think Hearts Of The Missing is also the first in a series starring Nicky Matthews. The winner receives a contract for publication of the winning manuscript with St. The novel won the 2017 Tony Hillerman Prize, which is awarded annually to the best first mystery novel set in the Southwest.
Hearts Of The Missing is Carol Potenza’s debut novel.
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