First Nations intrigue!

Redemption (Eva “Lightning Dance” Duran #1) by Deborah J Ledford      

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Eva “Lightning Dance” Duran, is a policewoman with the Taos County Sheriff’s Department. Eva is a member of the Taos Pueblo nation. She liaises between the Reservation Police and the County Department.

Her best friend Paloma “White Dove” Arrio has disappeared, along with three other First Nations women. All are Hoop dancers. It’s been some weeks, and it’s only now that the outside world becomes aware of what’s been happening. Eva finds a body in a hunting area on a borderline area between the County and the Rez. It’s one of the missing women, not White Dove, arranged in traditional ceremonial dress, that’s interestingly not genuine. The elders don’t want the FBI called in on Sovereign Land, even though it might give access to valuable data.

White Dove had been an amazing Hoop dancer until on the way home from competitions she’d been in a collision. She was left injured and her husband dead. Her pain, emotional and physical was unbearable.  That was the beginning of Paloma’s drug addiction. 

Eva, a Reservation cop, Cruz “”Wolf Song” Romero, and White Dove’s son Kai “Single Star” Arrio, continue their frantic search, but as another of White Dove’s friends turns up dead they are faced with the possibility that they might never find her.

A taut and rewarding police procedural working within the boundaries that restrain the County Department and the Reservation police. I was fascinated by the demarcation lines between the two.

A swiftly developing intrigue, told from various points of view. I was totally involved.

A Thomas & Mercer ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.