D. M. Rowell (Koyh Mi O Boy Dah) an enrolled citizen of the Kiowa Tribe, comes from a long line of storytellers within a Plains Indian culture that treasures oral traditions. After a thirty-two-year career spinning stories for Silicon Valley corporations and start-ups with a few escapes creating award-winning documentaries, Rowell started a new chapter writing the Mud Sawpole mysteries featuring a Silicon Valley professional Kiowa woman solving thefts and murders in Kiowa country. The first, NEVER NAME THE DEAD was a 2023 Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award Finalist. Publishers Weekly said of SILENT ARE THE DEAD, “Rowell’s clever second whodunit … elegantly threads tangible details about tribal life into the action, which remains propulsive throughout.”
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