IN SANTA FE, someone has murdered an art collector, and now they’re moving on to Native artists. The police have called in a private eye: Think Philip Marlowe, but make him Apache. Eagle Eye Investigations owner Johnny Geronimo starts having visions of the killer, who calls himself the Coyote. Johnny Geronimo: Art of Darkness (Red Planet Books/UNM Press), a graphic novel penned by Gary Robinson (Choctaw/Cherokee) and illustrated by Dale DeForest (Diné), is an engrossing Indigenoir whodunit steeped in both the capital city’s art scene and hardboiled detective fiction. The story and its black-and-white illustrations show a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of Native artists’ perspectives in America’s third-largest art market.
What We’re Reading: Johnny Geronimo: Art of Darkness
In this Santa Fe–set graphic novel, an Apache private eye chases a killer targeting Native artists in the city's high-stakes art world.
By Molly Boyle