Reservations: A Lola Wicks Mystery

Formerly a war correspondent, now a journalist living in Montana, Lola Wicks often prefers reporting to people. In this fourth adventure (after Disgraced), Lola and her family—husband Charlie, who's a member of the Blackfeet tribe, and their daughter, Maggie—take a trip to the Arizona Navajo reservation to visit Charlie's brother and wife. It's the last place Lola expects to get caught up in a news scoop. But then a bomb goes off, killing one of the tribal elders, and signs point to ecoterrorists who are protesting a new coal mine on the reservation that is destroying the mesa, poisoning the local water supply, and driving people from their homes. And yet the mine is a key source of employment in the region, and as Lola digs—how can she ignore a story so divisive?—she discovers community tensions that run deeper than the mine.