Looking For Smoke

Looking for Smoke is a literary-thriller murder mystery set within a Native American community, perfect for fans of Firekeeper's Daughter, Sadie, and the One of Us Is Lying series. This debut novel is an own voices narrative.

Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider, taunted by her tight-knit classmates for growing up far away. When a local girl includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet Giveaway to honour her missing sister, Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends.

Instead, a girl from the Giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found murdered.

Because the members of the Giveaway group were the last to see Samantha alive, each becomes a person of interest in the investigation:

• New-girl Mara, who hated Samantha for being particularly cruel.
• Grief-stricken Loren Arnoux, who was Samantha's best friend until her sister's disappearance drove a wedge between them.
• Class-clown Brody Clark, whose unreciprocated crush on Samantha is an open secret.
• Tough-guy Eli First Kill, who has his own complicated history with Samantha.

Despite deep mistrust, the four must now take matters into their own hands to clear their names, even though one of them may be the murderer.

In her powerful debut novel, Looking for Smoke, author K. A. Cobell (Blackfeet) weaves loss, betrayal, and complex characters into a mystery that will illuminate, surprise, and engage readers until the final word.