I hadn't read very much of Marcie R. Rendon's first Cash Blackbear mystery (Murder on the Red River) before I knew I'd not only love the book but want to read more by this Native American author. Rendon brings me right into her world, and I appreciate every second of the experience. She's also created a very memorable character in young Cash Blackbear, so I was thrilled when I discovered that there will be a fourth book in this series.
Let me tell you more about it!
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| Available March 4, 2025! |
Synopsis:
"1970s: It’s spring in the Red River Valley and Cash Blackbear is
doing field work for a local farmer—until she finds him dead on the
kitchen floor of the property’s rented farmhouse. The tenant, a Native
field laborer, and his wife are nowhere to be found, but Cash finds
their young daughter, Shawnee, cowering under a bed. The girl, a
possible witness to the killing, is too terrified to speak.
In the wake of the murder, Cash can’t deny her intuitive abilities: she is suspicious of the farmer’s grieving widow, who offers to take in Shawnee temporarily. While Cash is scouring White Earth Reservation for Shawnee’s missing mother—whom Cash wants to find before the girl is put in the foster system—another body turns up. Concerned by the escalating threat, Cash races against the clock to figure out the truth of what happened in the farmhouse.
Broken Fields is a compelling, atmospheric read woven with details of American Indian life in northern Minnesota, abusive farm labor practices and women’s liberation."
In the wake of the murder, Cash can’t deny her intuitive abilities: she is suspicious of the farmer’s grieving widow, who offers to take in Shawnee temporarily. While Cash is scouring White Earth Reservation for Shawnee’s missing mother—whom Cash wants to find before the girl is put in the foster system—another body turns up. Concerned by the escalating threat, Cash races against the clock to figure out the truth of what happened in the farmhouse.
Broken Fields is a compelling, atmospheric read woven with details of American Indian life in northern Minnesota, abusive farm labor practices and women’s liberation."
Broken Fields definitely sounds like a winner, and I can't wait to get my hands on it. I highly recommend this series, and I would suggest you begin at the beginning with Murder on the Red River because of the growth of Cash's character.
I recommend this series,too. I'm about to start book three. Very interesting, educational and well-done. And the notes about the heartbreaking history of Native children stolen from their tribes and families always takes up space in the Afterword.
ReplyDeleteI love how Cash is overcoming obstacles and forging a new life for herself.
DeleteI like Cash Blackbear very much as a character, Cathy, so it's great to hear there'll be another Cash story coming out. As if she wasn't interesting enough, I also really like the setting and the depiction of the culture of the time and place. Rendon really places the reader, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteShe certainly does.
DeleteI've had this series on my reading list for a while ( thanks to you) and I think I need to move it up a few notches!
ReplyDeleteI think you would appreciate it, Dorothy.
DeleteI'm excited! I really like Cash Blackbear and was hoping Rendon would write another book in this series. :D
ReplyDeleteWe got our wish!
DeleteI like Cash's character too, and am glad to know there are more books being added to the series for me to gradually enjoy.
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm so glad this series is continuing.
DeleteThis series is very real, not a fantasy. And Cash Blackbear is relatable as a real person and I want to see what happens with her next, after I finish finding out what happens to Jackson Brodie in Kate Atkinson's new book,Death at the Site of the Took, which one must read with tongue firmly in cheek.
ReplyDeleteI agree.
DeleteI decided that Atkinson's book is largely satire about the dying English aristocracy, losing their opulence and the village vicar with deep problems. It sometimes elicits laughs and at other times I'm reading and smiling.
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