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Dakota

Finalist for the Silver Falchion Award

 

By Gwen Florio
Publication Date: March 21, 2014/May 30, 2023
Publisher: Open Road Media
Pages: 298

ASIN: B0BZHKRV2L

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Description

Former foreign correspondent Lola Wicks is getting a little bored in Magpie, Montana, where she landed at a small local newspaper after being downsized from her job in Kabul. Then Judith Calf Looking, a local Blackfeet girl missing for several months, turns up dead in a snowbank with a mysterious brand on her forearm. The sheriff – whose romantic relationship with Lola provides Magpie with its most delicious gossip in years –  thinks Judith probably froze to death while hitch-hiking back to the reservation from wherever she’d been.

But Lola hears rumors that Judith had been working as an exotic dancer in the North Dakota oil fields, and further discovers that several Blackfeet girls, all known drug users, have gone missing over the past year. She heads out to the oil patch to check things out, only to find herself in a place where men outnumber women a hundred to one, the law looks the other way, and life – especially her own – is cheap.

Dakota shows the frightening underside of a boom-and-bust economy; of the effect on a small town when big-city money washes in, accompanied by hordes of men far from their families; of what happens when the old rules no longer apply, but the new ones are yet to be determined.

Praise for Dakota

Florio succeeds with her second riveting Lola title (after Montana) …  the hard-nosed feminine perspective is refreshing. Library Journal, starred review

…the writing is topnotch and the action builds at just the right pace. In Florio’s capable hands, Lola Wicks is going to be around for a long, long time. Kirkus Reviews

 

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