With all due respect to all the victims, and the author seems reluctantly to acknowledge this, the true center of the story is missed. And that is the tragedy of the victimization of native women and girls. The author touches on the fact that nothing like justice was served until a white woman was a victim, and is very careful to show respect. All this is understandable, expected, and admirable. But the fact remains that later victims, who receive considerably more attention by police, media and society at large, wouldn’t have been victims, if anyone had cared to show diligence in solving the disappearances and murders of native women at first. For what it is, the book does a fine job. However, for a more comprehensive view, Highway of Tears is a magnificent book that shines a harsh light on these atrocities of injustice.