Thomas King 
Red Power Murders 
A DreadfulWater Mystery

From the bestselling author of The Back of the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian comes a wry and irreverent mystery Thumps Dreadful Water has never liked surpriseseven the good ones are annoying. So its no shock that a string of seemingly random occurrences is causing Thumps some real discomfort. First Noah Ridge, the Red Power Native activist, arrives in Thumps sleepy town of Chinook. Then the body of a retired FBI agent turns up at the local Holiday Inn. In the background hovers the ghostly presence of Lucy Kettle, second-in-charge of the Red Power movement, a tough woman in a tough place until her disappearance years ago. Now the sheriff wants Thumps to trade in his photography gig for a temporary cop beat. And it wont be over, Thumps soon realizes, until everyones deador famous.Hailed by critics in his first appearance, Cherokee ex-cop Thumps Dreadful Water is back in rumpled but razor-sharp form, doing his laconic, comic best to avoid troubleand catch the bad guys. Bestselling writer Thomas King has penned a second entertaining Dreadful Water mystery, injected with the authors characteristic dry wit and biting social commentary.