The Names Nobody Says
Someone out there thought they'd gotten away with it. Thought that marginalizing victims meant marginalizing consequences. Thought that jurisdictional complexity and institutional indifference would protect them forever.
Someone was wrong.
Maya Quintana was a bone reader. She spoke for the dead.
And the dead had stories to tell.
Stories about a killer who'd been hunting for decades, leaving signatures in bone that only someone trained to see them would recognize. Stories about women who deserved justice, families who deserved answers, a system that had failed them all.
Maya would read those stories. Would translate them from the language of fracture patterns and skeletal trauma into evidence that could build a case. Would speak for the women who could no longer speak for themselves.
The work was just beginning.
And this time, she wasn't alone. —- The Bone Reader
Why I Write About the Missing
A lone woman stands at dusk among empty red dresses, holding a photograph as the wind moves through a quiet landscape—an image reflecting the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and the absence left behind.
Why I Set a Noir in El Paso
Perfect for fans of hardboiled detective fiction, LGBTQ+ historical romance, and stories about women who refuse to let the bastards win.
The Yamaha FJR1300: A Sport-Tourer That Earned Its Place on the Open Road
After more than twenty years, the Yamaha FJR1300 has quietly disappeared from U.S. showrooms. Here's what made it great, what happened, and why it still matters to riders who go the distance.
The Bone Keeper: When the Case Becomes Personal
Maya Quintana hunts a killer while battling her own obsession in The Bone Keeper, the gripping sequel to The Bone Reader. GA Thompson's MMIW crime series continues.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: A Crisis Hidden in Plain Sight
G.A. Sundquist on the MMIW crisis — the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls that inspired The Bone Reader, The Bone Keeper, and Desert Angels.
Why I Wrote A Magnificent Ride to Nowhere
G.A. Thompson on why he wrote his motorcycle memoir — a story 50 years in the making, about cross-country rides, a Vietnam-era draft notice, and the courage it takes to tell the truth.