Inkberry Books: August 1st at 7:00 PM

Making matters more complicated, threats are coming from the Pine Ridge 705a street gang from a neighboring reservation who want to expand their reach into Rosebud--and Mitch Gagnon, a shady politician who will stop at nothing to gain more power.

With a heated tribal council election looming, as well as new revelations regarding past injustices at the local Native boarding school, the stakes grow even higher. Will Virgil find the justice he's seeking before it's too late?

David Heska Wanbli Weiden, whose writing "melds the gritty realism of Dashiell Hammett with the lyricism of Tommy Orange" (O, The Oprah Magazine), once again brings us a tour de force of crime fiction--and an expansive look at Native American life in a shifting world.

and named by Time magazine as one of the 100 best mystery and thriller novels of all time.

His short fiction appears in the anthologies The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2022, Never Whistle at Night, Denver Noir, and others. His nonfiction appears in the New York Times, Shenandoah, Alta, Poets & Writers, and other books and journals. He was Indigenous Artist in Residence at Brown University and has received fellowships from PEN America, MacDowell, Ucross, Ragdale, Sewanee, and Tin House. He's Professor of English and Native American and Indigenous Studies at Stony Brook University in New York.