Dakota

Resource Information

The work Dakota represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Dakota

Statement of responsibility

Gwen Florio

Creator

• Florio, Gwen, 1955-

Subject

• Drug traffic -- Fiction
• Indian women -- Fiction
• Missing persons -- Fiction
• Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
• Mystery fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction
• Women journalists -- Fiction
• Sihasapa Indians -- North Dakota -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Mystery fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3606.L664

LC item number

D35 2014

Literary form

fiction