Mystery & Mayhem Book Club: Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Mystery & Mayhem Book Club is a book club for adults 18+. We read all types of mystery titles from cozy to noir. August's mystery title is Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden.

From Publisher's Weekly: "Virgil Wounded Horse, the half Lakota, half white narrator of Weiden’s gorgeous debut, serves as a fists-for-hire enforcer on South Dakota’s Rosebud Indian Reservation. Ever since Virgil’s sister died in a car accident three years earlier, her son, Nathan, has been living with him. Back when Virgil was an alcoholic, his erratic behavior drove away the love of his life, Marie Short Bear, but now he’s sober, and after Nathan ends up in the hospital from an overdose of heroin, Marie returns to help Virgil take on the bad guys responsible for bringing heroin to the reservation. To complicate matters, Marie faces a decision about medical school in New Mexico, right as she and Virgil are falling back in love. The novel twists delicately around various personal conflicts while artfully addressing issues related to the politics of the reservation. Weiden combines funny, complex, and unforgettable characters with strong, poetic prose (“This was the winter of my sorrow, one I had tried to elude but which had come for me with a terrible cruelty”). This is crime fiction at its best."

Registration is required. We will be meeting in person in the first floor program room for the August book club. Masks are welcome and encouraged but not required. Books are available to check out now at the circulation/check out desk on the first floor of the library. If you are a Dubuque city resident and have access to Libby/Overdrive, there may be a digital copy of the title available to check out as well.