Homicide My Own Author:ANNE ARGULA Homicide My Own resides in that strange and fascinating land between mystery fiction and detective fiction, adjoined with the mystique of philosophy and Native American customs. Its a story of two slog-bottom cops from Spokane, Washington, who are assigned to what appears to be a routine mission: Theyre to go to an Indian reservation... more » on the Northwest coast and pick up a man whos being held for kidnapping a teenaged girl. Once there, however, one of the cops (given the unusual moniker of "Odd") becomes obsessed with a decades-old murder, the only unsolved murder in the islands history, and he really doesnt want to head back to Spokane until hes found some resolution. His partner, Quinn, the acid-tongued menopausal wife of a decent and boring pharmacist (and the novels narrator) finds Odds behavior rather amusing at first, but then finds it to be much more than amusing. In an intriguing character study, Anne Argula has developed a novel that not only forces a reader to keep turning the pages; it goes so far as to force the reader to look at life and death in a new and uncharacteristic way. Pick this book up at your own risk. You may find yourself having lost not only the next few hours but also your sense of confidence in, as one might say, "the world as you know it."« less