Join the North Providence Mystery and Adult Book Clubs on Tuesday April 7, 2026. We will welcome Vanessa Lillie, local author of Blood Sisters. This is her first book featuring Cyd Walker, an archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The book description from the author’s website is, “As an archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker 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, the past comes calling.
What happens to the land happens to the women.
When a skull is found near the crime scene of her youth,
just as her sister, Emma Lou, disappears, Syd knows she must return to
Oklahoma. She refuses to let her sister, or the remains, go ignored as so often
happens in cases of missing Native women.
But not everyone is glad to have Syd home. The search for
Emma Lou puts Syd in the crosshairs of local drug dealers looking to build an
empire and vengeful vigilantes policing the abandoned mines, while government
officials silence tribal rights.
The truth will be unearthed.
The deeper Syd digs, the more she uncovers about a string of
missing Indigenous women cases trailing back decades. To save her sister, she
must expose a darkness in town that no one wants to face—not even Syd.”
We will be meeting in the Community Room at 6:30 pm and on
Zoom. For more information, please see Sara at the Reference Desk or Mary at
the Circulation Desk.
