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Broken Fields
Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman, is back on the case after two men are found dead on a rural farm in Minnesota in the next installment of the acclaimed Native crime series. 1970s Minnesota. It's spring in the Red River Valley and Cash Blackbear is doing summer field work for Bud Borgerud, a local farmer--until she finds him dead on the kitchen floor of the property's rented farmhouse. The only possible witness to the murder is the young daughter of a Native field laborer who was renting the house. The girl, Shawnee, is too terrified to speak about what she's witnessed, and her parents seem to have vanished. In the wake of the murder, Cash can't deny her intuitive abilities: she is suspicious of the dead man's grieving widow, who offers to take in Shawnee temporarily. While Cash scours the county and White Earth reservation trying to find the missing mother before the Shawnee is placed in the care of a social worker--the same woman who placed Cash in foster care a decade earlier--another body turns up. Concerned about the girl's fate, and with the help of local Sheriff Wheaton, Cash races against the clock to figure out the truth of what happened in the farmhouse. Broken Fields is a compelling, fast read with seamlessly woven in details of rural life, the American Indian Movement, abusive farm labor practices, and women's liberation.
Book Details
- Publisher: Soho Crime
- Publish Date: Mar 4th, 2025
- Pages: NA
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 1.25lb
- EAN: 9781641296588
- Categories: • Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths• Indigenous - General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle• Thrillers - Supernatural
About the Author
Marcie Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, a Pinckley Prize-winning author, playwright, poet, freelance writer, and a community arts activist. Rendon was awarded the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award for 2020. She is a speaker on Native issues, leadership, and writing. Her second novel in her Cash Blackbear mystery series, Girl Gone Missing, was nominated for the Sue Grafton Memorial Award. Rendon was recognized as a 50 over 50 Change-maker by Minneapolis AARP and Pollen in 2018. She lives in Minneapolis.
Praise for this book
Praise for the Cash Blackbear Mysteries "Marcie Rendon is writing an addictive and authentically Native crime series propelled by the irresistible Cash Blackbear--a warm, sad, sharp, funny and intuitive young Ojibwe woman. I want a shelf of Cash Blackbear novels! To my delight I have a feeling that Rendon is only getting started."
--Louise Erdrich, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Night Watchman "[A] winning 1970s-set series."
--Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review "Like Cash's life, there's a rawness and a poetic leanness to Rendon's prose. The plot is quick with no excess, building to a confrontation that's inevitable and electrifying. Rendon's writing is quick and sharp and unflinching in its honesty . . . Haunting and truly gripping."
--Carole E. Barrowman, Star Tribune
"Marcie writes the way Anishinaabe people view the world--full of rich descriptions and layered storytelling. While confronting difficult truths about religion and the value of Indigenous lives, Marcie shares revelatory moments of Cash awakening to her own worth."
--Angeline Boulley, New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter "Rendon is a natural storyteller and a consummate writer . . . There isn't a protagonist in recent fiction with the bearing of Rendon's creation, and we're the better for knowing her."
―Grand Rapids Herald-Review "The vivid writing and keen eye keep the pages turning and readers hoping for another book in this series."
―Buzzfeed "[Rendon] is one heck of a mystery novelist. Rendon's Cash Blackbear books are gripping vehicles that tell broader stories about the historical persecution of American Indians."
--Oprah Daily
--Louise Erdrich, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Night Watchman "[A] winning 1970s-set series."
--Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review "Like Cash's life, there's a rawness and a poetic leanness to Rendon's prose. The plot is quick with no excess, building to a confrontation that's inevitable and electrifying. Rendon's writing is quick and sharp and unflinching in its honesty . . . Haunting and truly gripping."
--Carole E. Barrowman, Star Tribune
"Marcie writes the way Anishinaabe people view the world--full of rich descriptions and layered storytelling. While confronting difficult truths about religion and the value of Indigenous lives, Marcie shares revelatory moments of Cash awakening to her own worth."
--Angeline Boulley, New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter "Rendon is a natural storyteller and a consummate writer . . . There isn't a protagonist in recent fiction with the bearing of Rendon's creation, and we're the better for knowing her."
―Grand Rapids Herald-Review "The vivid writing and keen eye keep the pages turning and readers hoping for another book in this series."
―Buzzfeed "[Rendon] is one heck of a mystery novelist. Rendon's Cash Blackbear books are gripping vehicles that tell broader stories about the historical persecution of American Indians."
--Oprah Daily