cover image Evil Dead Center: A Mystery

Evil Dead Center: A Mystery

Carole Lafavor. Firebrand Books, $24.95 (216pp) ISBN 978-1-56341-089-5

Carole laFavor introduced her alter ego, Renee LaRouche, an Ojibwa Indian who put her talents for tracking foul play to good use off the rez, in Along the Journey River. Evil Dead Center begins when Renee gets a call from ex-lover Caroline, asking that she look into a young Indian female DOA whose death by exposure has been ruled the result of drunken carelessness. (Firebrand, $24.95 216p ISBN 1-56341-089-3; paper $11.95 -088-5; Jan.)