MYSTERY

Sinking Suspicions: A Sadie Walela Mystery

by Sara Sue Hoklotubbe
Univ. of Arizona. Oct. 2014. 224p. ISBN 9780816531073. $16.95. M
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When Sadie Walela sells her restaurant and attempts to try something different, she ends up in Maui negotiating with a travel agency about buying her friend Jan's franchise. Meanwhile, back in Oklahoma, boyfriend Lance Smith is searching for Buck Skinner, Sadie's irascible Cherokee neighbor who has disappeared after receiving several threatening letters from the IRS. When Lance and Sycamore Springs sheriff Charlie McCord find a body that they identify as Buck, confusion reigns. It's revealed that Buck was the victim of identity theft, and the corpse belongs to the thief. Was Buck responsible? Worried about her friend, Sadie hurries home, but Buck is a heroic World War II veteran, and his experience might just save him.
VERDICT Following The American Café and Deception at All Costs, this third series outing set in Oklahoma's Cherokee country is leisurely paced and will attract fans of Jean Hager and her "Mitch Bushyhead" and "Molly Bearpaw" books. But Tony Hillerman readers wishing for more details on Cherokee life—and less about Hawaii
Reviewed by Viccy Kemp , Sep 01, 2014
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