Danger in Dakota

Dakota, written by Gwen Florio is a tense, nerve wracking mystery that has you turning pages as fast as you can read them. Lola Wicks, a former foreign correspondent for a major newspaper now works for a small newspaper in Magpie, Montana. She finds herself rushing to North Dakota's Patch to cover a story about missing Blackfeet girls and the oil fields. What she finds is shocking and dangerous.

When Judith Calf Looking, a local Blackfeet girl missing for several months, is found dead in a snow bank five miles from home, Lola learns several other girls have been missing for the past year. Most of the girls were known drug users, so their disappearance didn't register with most people. 

Although Judith has been found dead, her brother Joshua swears she had cleaned up her life. Lola hears rumors that the other missing girls are working in the oil patch as exotic dancers.

When Lola arrives in Burnt Creek, Dakota, she is shocked at what she encounters. Men outnumber the women a hundred to one and most business establishments are either bars or strip joints. Life is rough and she feels sorry for the native residents who lived in Burnt Creek before the oil boom. She begins asking questions and before long she is attacked and left in the cold. The local sheriff, Thor Brevik, discovers her and takes her home to have his wife Charlotte help her recover. 

That's when the trouble really begins. This book is by no means a cozy mystery, but it an excellent and exciting mystery.

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