Spotlight of Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie

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BLOOD SISTERS

VANESSA LILLIE

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ALL INFORMATION IN THIS POST IS COURTESY OF LOREN JAGGERS | ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLICITY | BERKLEY BOOKS

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BLOOD SISTERS is a powerful exploration of contemporary Native experiences and injustices, from land rights to cultural identity. 

 

Think C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett or Longmire in light of Killers of the Flower Moon.

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November 2023

 Berkley Hardcover

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PRAISE FOR BLOOD SISTERS:

“Combines Cherokee history and legend with contemporary drug and land problems in a gripping story of missing Indigenous women.”—Library Journal, STARRED review

“Lillie paints the beautiful yet bleak landscape with a fine brush. Readers who enjoy strong voices will be pulled in by the characters, while those who are drawn to setting will feel as if they are in Picher.”—Booklist

“BLOOD SISTERS sets its hooks on page one and then pulls relentlessly and colorfully through buried secrets and rediscovered Native heritage.”— C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Storm Front

“While reading Vanessa Lillie’s BLOOD SISTERS, I kept thinking of the word 'binge-worthy'. A propulsive story of familial fault lines with as much to say about the dark side of people as it has to say about the potential for redemption.”—Caroline Kepnes, New York Times bestselling author of the You series

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ABOUT BLOOD SISTERS:

BLOOD SISTERS is a visceral and compelling new thriller featuring a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, who spends her days in Rhode Island trying to protect the land’s Indigenous past, even as she’s escaping her own. 

While Syd is dedicated to her job, she’s haunted by a night of violence she barely escaped in her Oklahoma hometown fifteen years ago. 

Even though she swore she’d never go back, she’s called back to Oklahoma when a skull is found near the crime scene of her youth. 

And her sister, Emma Lou, has vanished.

Syd knows she must return home. She refuses to let her sister's disappearance, or the remains, go ignored—as often happens in cases of missing Native women.

But not everyone is glad to have Syd home, and she can feel the crosshairs on her back. 

The deeper Syd digs, the more she uncovers about a string of missing Indigenous women cases going back decades. 

To save her sister, she must expose a darkness in the town that no one wants to face—not even Syd.

Vanessa Lillie is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and at its heart BLOOD SISTERS is a story of missing girls and women. 

When Lillie was a senior in high school, two local Oklahoma girls went missing and for more than twenty years, she has watched the family search. 

While the crime in the opening pages and at the center of this novel is not the same as what happened to those girls, Lillie says “my emotions, my observations, and my own anger, is within these pages. 

 

These feelings are also connected to the larger conversation about the high rate of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit."

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Vanessa Lillie is originally from Miami, Oklahoma, where she spent a lot of time investigating local ghost stories at the public library. Her next book, Blood Sisters, releases October 31, 2023 and is the launch of a new series with #MMIW2S at the heart of the stories.

She is the author of the bestselling thrillers Little Voices (October 2019) and For the Best (September 2020). She created and co-authored the instant bestselling Audible Original Young Rich Widows and the sequel is on the way!

With fifteen years of marketing and communications experience, Vanessa was a columnist for the Providence Journal and hosts a regular Instagram Lives with crime fiction authors. She is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma living on Narragansett land in Rhode Island. Connect with her on Instagram! 

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