SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR FIRST NOVEL Winter Counts is a marvel.
Winner, Spur Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and Best First Novel * Winner, Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery Novel * Shortlisted, Best First Novel, Bouchercon Anthony Awards * Shortlisted, Best First Novel, International Thriller Writers * Shortlisted, Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, International Association of Crime Writers * Longlisted, VCU Cabell First Novel Award * Shortlisted, Barry Award for Best First Novel * Shortlisted, Reading the West Award * Shortlisted, Colorado Book Award (Thriller).
Winter Counts is a tour-de-force of crime fiction, a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life, and a twisting, turning story that\'s as deeply rendered as it is thrilling.
He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost.
As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity.
And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power.
They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances.
He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop.
But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil\'s nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal.
When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that\'s hard to forget.
Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. --Tommy Orange, author of There There A Best Book of 2020: NPR * Publishers Weekly * Library Journal * CrimeReads * Goodreads * Sun Sentinel * SheReads * MysteryPeople A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx.
It\'s a thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGAR AWARD FOR FIRST NOVEL Winter Counts is a marvel
