© Rowan G. Dove, 2022

Laurie L. Dove is an award-winning journalist, professor, and the instant USA Today bestselling author of Mask of the Deer Woman, a suspenseful mystery The New York Times called a “best new release” and The Seattle Times called “a powerful read for fans of dark, riveting stories rooted in justice and resilience.” Her second book releases Fall 2026. Dove earned a graduate degree from Harvard University; she is writing her third and fourth novels. 

Schedule

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm 
Outside Museum, South Tent
Unquiet Communities: Myth, Murder, and the Search for Justice
Eli Cranor, Mississippi Blue 42: A Novel
Laurie L. Dove, The Mask of the Deer Woman: A Novel
Matthew Sullivan, Midnight in Soap Lake: A Novel
with moderator Maurice Carlos Ruffin

2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Mask of the Deer Woman: A Novel

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER

To find a missing young woman, the new tribal marshal must also find herself.

At rock bottom following her daughter’s death, ex–Chicago detective Carrie Starr has nowhere to go but back to her roots. Starr’s father never talked much about the reservation where he was raised, but the tribe needs a new marshal as much as Starr needs a place to call home.

In the past decade, too many young women have disappeared from the rez. Some have ended up dead, others just…gone. Now local college student Chenoa Cloud is missing, and Starr falls into an investigation that leaves her drowning in memories of her daughter—the girl she failed to save.

Starr feels lost in this place she thought would welcome her. And when she catches a glimpse of a figure from her father’s stories, with the body of a woman and the antlers of a deer, Starr can’t shake the feeling that the fearsome spirit is watching her, following her.

What she doesn’t know is whether Deer Woman is here to guide her or to seek vengeance for the lost daughters that Starr can never bring home.