WHEN SILENCE SCREAMS by Mark Edward Langley
Since my third novel in the Arthur Nakai series When Silence Screams was released August 31st, 2021, good things have been happening. First it won 2nd place in the PSWA competition, then was nominated for 13 more awards. I was interviewed by three newspapers and did a lot of radio and podcast interviews. The latest is a newspaper interview with the Albuquerque Journal, since my novels take place in New Mexico. The novel resonates so much in the southwest and on the reservations across America because it concerns a missing fictional 19-yar-old—April Manygoats—who gets fooled by a fake online profile and soon finds herself lost in the world of sex trafficking. What was the inspiration for this story? The missing 5,712 missing indigenous girls and women of 2016. When I read about them and saw the missing fliers, I knew I had to create a story that would be a thrilling yet gripping mystery that would also raise awareness of this tragedy. To the Native people this is a subject ...