Description
Mara has felt like an outsider since moving to her Blackfeet Reservation from the city, but when a classmate is murdered during the Indian Days powwow, Mara gets to know three other teens who are involved with the case—even though the murderer could be among them. This debut novel, a YA thriller by Blackfeet author K. A. Cobell, deals sensitively with the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit Relatives while at the same time offering a compelling, page-turning story that readers will be unable to put down.
When rez-girl Loren includes urban-Native Mara in a traditional Blackfeet giveaway to honor Loren’s missing sister, Mara thinks she’ll finally make some friends on the Blackfeet Reservation.
Instead, a girl from the giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found murdered.
Because the four members of the giveaway group were the last to see Samantha alive, each becomes a person of interest in the investigation. And all of them—Mara, Loren, Brody, and Eli—have a complicated history with Samantha.
Despite deep mistrust, the four must now take matters into their own hands and clear their names. Even though one of them may be the murderer.
In her powerful debut novel, Looking for Smoke, author K. A. Cobell (Blackfeet) weaves loss, betrayal, and complex characters into a mystery that will illuminate, surprise, and engage readers until the final word.
