SILENT ARE THE DEAD Mud Sawpole, Book 2

Narrator Katie Rich matches the youthful tone and spunky energy of Mud Sawpole, a Kiowa woman with a Silicon Valley business, as she returns to her home to find a missing priceless artifact, the Jefferson Peace Medal. Rich portrays complex characters and recounts Indigenous history at a fast clip, engaging listeners at both an emotional and an intellectual level. A room full of venomous snakes, the disappearance of a body, and more make it clear that someone doesn't want Mud to recover the artifact. A threat from frackers ratchets up the tension as Mud and her cousin, Denny, race to preserve local air and water quality, return the missing artifact to the Kiowa museum, and free a tribal elder who has been falsely accused of murder. R.O. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2024]