
Murder on the Red River
The Cash Blackbear Mysteries, Book 1
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Marcie R. Rendon
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A murdered man in a field. The sheriff needs Cash - a 20-something tough, smart Indian woman with special seeing powers.
Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother's wrecked car when she was 3. He's kept an eye out for her ever since. It's a tough place to live - northern Minnesota along the Red River. Cash navigated through foster homes, and at 13 was working farms. She's tough as nails, 5 feet, 2 inches, blue jeans, blue jean jacket, smokes Marlboros, drinks Bud Longnecks. Makes her living driving truck. Playing pool on the side.
Wheaton is big lawman type. Maybe Scandinavian stock, but darker skin than most. He wants her to take hold of her life. Get into junior college. So there they are, staring at the dead Indian lying in the field. Soon Cash was dreaming the dead man's cheap house on the Red Lake Reservation, mother and kids waiting. She has that kind of power. That's the place to start looking. There's a long and dangerous way to go to find the men who killed him. Plus there's Jim, the married white guy. And Long Braids, the Indian guy headed for Minneapolis to join the American Indian Movement.
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Loved it.
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Cash is young, resilient, smart, intuitive, and tough. She reminds me of a young Kate Shugak, for those who have also read Dana Stabenow’s series. But the setting, and the rest of the characters are markedly different.
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The mystery itself was interesting. I didn’t like the conclusion to it - probably because it was far too realistic. I don’t mean that it was overly graphic. It was heartbreaking and senseless.
If you know much about the history of colonization of the US, you’ll realize that though this is a work of fiction, the events depicted here are all too common.
There’s no preaching here, no long political diatribes. Just the senseless violence of the persistent bigotry against Native people, as well as the ancestral and personal traumas that Cash lives with. Bigotry and trauma form the setting in which these characters move, every bit as much as the shape of the land.
I appreciate the way the author highlights the resilience of Cash, and other Native people - especially children - throughout this novel.
Excellent
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It was too short, but I liked it!
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Great story, weird narration.
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Narrators of audio books are a huge draw to me, and I found this one to be overly breathy, with misplaced fluctuations of soft tones to loud ones. I’m sure it was for dramatic effect (maybe), but I did not feel that it was used effectively for the text.
There is not enough emotional substance in this novel about the character to draw me to her to want to read more; I will probably pass on the next books in the series.
If you are looking for a good mystery, pass on this book.
Breathy Narrator & Misleading Title
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The MCs ups and downs, trying to keep a even keel in her life had me remembering what I went through. This is a good story for people completely unaware can read to get a closer view of these things. Narrator does a Great job with the characters and entire storyline.
Heart rendering Tale Simular to True Life!
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I love the character. It takes a lot for me to use my credits on works of fiction but I will now purchase Sinister Graves even though I already have the physical copy of the book.
I love that there is also education at the end. Native people in the US have endured so many atrocities. The vast majority of Americans don’t know even a fraction of that pain. Many see the reservations ( if they see them at all) and also the tent cities and simply judge the alcoholism, drug abuse and poverty without acknowledging the dysfunction that has been forced unto so many of these lives. Thank you Marcie
Stellar- Loved it
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The murder mystery seemed rushed, concluding quickly at the end of the story and with somewhat vague details. I’d say that the murder investigation aspect of the book is somewhat secondary to the “slice of life” depiction of cash’s experience as a native woman at that time, with a focus on the foster care system that was very harmful to the native community.
Enjoyable read, but less focus on thriller/mystery
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I wish the plot had been a bit deeper
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Great storyline
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