Elizabeth Holmes prosecutors seek 15-year sentence and $800m in restitution

For fans of returning-home-to-solve-a-mystery-fight-for-your-home reads. Mud left her Kiowa tribe behind in Oklahoma and now works at an agency in Silicon Valley. She has a huge project at the moment that could change everything for the agency when she gets a message from her grandfather back home: “I have a bad feeling. Come now.” And so she does, trying her best to manage what is needed from work over the phone while trying to help her grandfather. Except it’s not a happy homecoming when she returns to the Plains Indian tribe. Her grandfather is missing, she finds a dead man in his workroom, and he’s accused of having stolen a Jefferson Peace Medal. It’s up to her, and her cousin, to clear her grandfather’s name.

I have about 10% left of the book and am really enjoying it, especially the look at history (artifacts and the history behind them) and Mud’s character. Her grandfather is a storyteller and she is supposed to be too but some members of the tribe treated her like she wasn’t Kiowa enough because of her curly hair, so she left instead of taking her place in the tribe. Something she has to deal with now that she’s back and faced with what she’s left, lost, and forgotten. And she also has to deal with seeing the ex-girlfriend she left behind, which did not end on good terms. It appears to be the start of a series and I am absolutely here for the second book.

This is a great series with tons of nods to the mystery genre where each book reads as a standalone — they are all multiple points of view with just one detective character connecting all the books. The first was for fans of a book within a book (short story) and a nod to Gothic stories: The Stranger Diaries. The second one is for fans of not-dark murder mysteries with found family: The Postscript Murders. And this one is for fans of “a group of friends did something bad a long time ago and now someone is killing them off, maybe.”

Harbinder Kaur has taken a new position in London and is getting to know her officers, her roommates, and a new city. She has also just landed her first case: an MP is found dead at his school reunion. What Harbinder doesn’t know is that one of her new officers, who is also at the reunion, was part of a group of high school students who got away with murder once…

This is a good read if you like murder mysteries, friend groups, past and present, multiple points of view, and a few “say what now?” reveals.

(TW parent with terminal cancer, death/mentions death recorded as suicide, no detail/recounts sexual assault, and attempted assault, with some details)