D. M. Rowell
San Jose
CA USAContact: dmrowell@gmail.comPen Name(s): D. M. Rowell
CA USAContact: dmrowell@gmail.comPen Name(s): D. M. Rowell
Never Name the Dead, Silent Are the Dead
Mud Sawpole Mysteries
Amateur Sleuth, Caper, Domestic Suspense, Suspense, Traditional
Craft, Subject Expertise
Native American Oral Traditions influence on Storytelling Native American writing mysteries with Native main characters Bringing Kiowa culture to murder mysteries Kiowa history
D. M. Rowell (Koyh Mi O Boy Dah) is an enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe. Rowell comes from a long line of Kiowa storytellers within a Plains Indian culture that treasures oral traditions. After a thirty-two-year career spinning stories for Silicon Valley start-ups and corporations, with a few escapes creating award-winning independent documentaries, Rowell started a new chapter, writing the Mud Sawpole mysteries featuring a Silicon Valley professional Kiowa woman solving thefts and murders in Kiowa country. First in the series, NEVER NAME THE DEAD was a 2023 Finalist for the Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award and recently released, SILENT ARE THE DEAD is receiving high praise. Publishers Weekly stated, “Rowell’s clever second whodunit featuring Mud Sawpole … elegantly threads tangible details about tribal life into the action, which remains propulsive throughout.”