Marcie R. Rendon. Cinco Puntos, $15.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-941026-52-6
An appealing 19-year-old heroine, Renee “Cash” Blackbear, lifts Rendon’s first mystery, set in Fargo, N.Dak., and—on the other side of the Red River—Moorhead, Minn. Sheriff Wheaton rescued Cash at age three in the aftermath of the accident in which...
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Marcie R. Rendon. Soho Crime, $27.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-64129-383-9
Set sometime in the 1970s, Rendon’s strong third Cash Blackbear mystery (after 2019’s Girl Gone Missing) finds 19-year-old college student Cash, an Ojibwe who was separated from her family when she was three, continuing to serve as the unofficial...
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Marcie R. Rendon. Cinco Puntos, $15.95 trade paper (228p) ISBN 978-1-947627-11-6
In Rendon’s refreshing sequel to 2017’s Murder on the Red River, 19-year-old Renee “Cash” Blackbear is a freshman at Minnesota’s Moorhead State College, thanks to her friend and mentor, Sheriff Dave Wheaton. The whip-smart member of the Anishinabe...
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Marcie R. Rendon. Bantam, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-49652-7
An Ojibwe community organizer investigates the disappearances of two Indigenous women in Rendon’s powerful latest (after Sinister Graves). While running on a reservation in northern Minnesota one snowy morning, young mother Quill hears a woman’s...
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Marcie R. Rendon. Soho Crime, $28.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-64129-658-8
Rendon’s fourth outing for Ojibwe sleuth Cash Blackbear (after Sinister Graves) combines a shocking whodunit with an insightful exploration of guilt. In the previous book, Cash killed a man in self-defense. At the outset of this one, she remains...
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