The University of Arizona Press
June 25, 2020
Since March, we have featured a free e-Book almost every week. As we look toward the long weekend coming up, what could be better than tucking into a good mystery?
For this week’s Free e-Book of the Week, we’re pleased to offer the first of Sara Sue Hoklotubbe’s mystery series, Deception on All Accounts for free download. Set against the backdrop of small-town Oklahoma and its Native culture, Deception on All Accounts draws readers into the real lives of contemporary American Indians as it shines a light on violence, corporate corruption, and prejudice in modern America. As Sadie Walela comes to terms with murder, romance, and her hopes for a career, she finds deception on all accounts.
Deception on All Accounts is the first of four books that feature Sadie. Author Sara Sue Hoklotubbe is a Cherokee tribal citizen. She is the winner of a WILLA Literary Award, Trophy Award for Best Fiction Book by Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for best mystery/suspense, and a Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Award for best mystery.. Read ‘Seven Questions with Sara Sue Hoklotubbe’ to learn more.
Download Deception on All Accounts here using code AZSADIE20. Available until 7/6/2020.
“It’s a pleasure to make the acquaintance of Sadie Walela, a banker in northeastern Oklahoma who is thrust into the role of amateur sleuth after a spate of branch robberies leaves several colleagues dead and her career in critical condition. . . . Hoklotubbe paints a believable picture of Indian-white relations in small-town America and crafts a series protagonist as savvy as she is sweet.”—Booklist
“Evenly paced prose, increasingly suspenseful plotting, and the emergence of a strong heroine characterize this promising first mystery.”—Library Journal
