Vanessa Lillie

Bestselling Suspense Author

BLOOD SISTERS

GMA Book Club Buzz Pick Target Book Club Pick AMAZON BEST OF 2023 THRILLER SERIES
Washington Post Best Mystery 2023

BUY NOW

BUZZ

  • Target Book Club November pick

PRAISE

“Combines Cherokee history and legend with contemporary drug and land problems in a gripping story of missing Indigenous women. Readers looking for LGBTQIA+ and Two-Spirit characters will hope for more about Syd Walker.”
—Library Journal (starred)

“This suspenseful mystery will not only captivate you, but it may just teach you something about Cherokee history, land rights and the plague of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Including queer and Two-Spirit characters, Blood Sisters is a meaningful and compelling thriller.” 
—Ms. Magazine

“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

“Lillie does an excellent job of balancing a riveting plot with a moving portrait of her troubled lead.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Just a few pages in and this novel is roaring with mystery, danger, anguish and regret. Lillie fuels her Native characters with hope, resentment, anger and despair…A crime novel’s journey often runs toward escapism, but the best, like Blood Sisters, lead us on a path toward knowledge and discovery.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“A dark tale of justice and injustice.”
—Denver Post

 

“Blood Sisters is a tale with all the twisting fury of a tornado. Set on the complex checkerboard of Indian land in northeastern Oklahoma, it delves deeply and dramatically into the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women. But it also mines the rich territory of family, kinship, love, loyalty, guilt, and regret. Vanessa Lillie is a remarkable and courageous storyteller and an important Native voice. I recommend this book with all my heart and the hope that it will make a difference.”

—William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land

“Bingeworthy. A propulsive story of familial fault lines with as much to say about the dark side of people as the potential for redemption.”
—Caroline Kepnes, New York Times bestselling author of the You series

“Vanessa Lillie’s riveting thriller explores the elusiveness of truth, and the history that binds people together—and to a place—no matter the time or the distance. At once captivating and illuminating, surprising and powerful, Blood Sisters is a story that resonates.”
—Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls

“A critically important and riveting story of sisterhood, love, kinship and the search for justice in a federal system that has long ignored the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit People. Lillie illuminates Native womens’ simultaneous erasure and inhuman treatment with sensitivity, ingenuity and passion, powerfully elucidating all the ways that MMIWG2S are not missing by any fault of their own.”
—Chelsea T. Hicks, author of A Calm & Normal Heart

Join Vanessa's Mailing List!

You'll receive occasional news and updates

You can unsubscribe anytime