02356cam a2200361 i 4500 1345942883 TxAuBib 20240628120000.0 240617t20242023||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024005261 9781420514292 1420514296 (OCoLC)1420353609 TxAuBib rda Lillie, Vanessa, author. Blood sisters / Vanessa Lillie. Large print edition. [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024. ©2023. 513 pages (large print) ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women...one of them her sister. There are secrets in the land. As an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker spends her days in Rhode Island trying to protect the land's indigenous past, even as she's escaping her own. While Syd is dedicated to her job, she's haunted by a night of violence she barely escaped in her Oklahoma hometown fifteen years ago. Though she swore she'd never go back, the past comes calling. When a skull is found near the crime scene of her youth, just as her sister, Emma Lou, vanishes, Syd knows she must return home. She refuses to let her sister's disappearance, or the remains, go ignored--as so often happens in cases of missing Native women. But not everyone is glad to have Syd home, and she can feel the crosshairs on her. Still, the deeper Syd digs, the more she uncovers about a string of missing indigenous women cases going back decades. To save her sister, she must expose a darkness in the town that no one wants to face--not even Syd. The truth will be unearthed"-- Provided by publisher. 20240628. Archaeologists Fiction. Indians of North America Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Indian women Crimes against Fiction. Sisters Fiction. Oklahoma Fiction. TXKPL