Murder on the Red River, Marcie R. Rendon
Murder on the Red River, Marcie R. Rendon
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Murder on the Red River

Author: Marcie R. Rendon

Narrator: Siiri Scott

Unabridged: 6 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/21/2020

Synopsis

A murdered man in a field. The sheriff needs Cash—a twenty-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 three. 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 thirteen was working farms. She’s tough as nails, five feet two 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.

About Marcie R. Rendon

Marcie R. Rendon is a citizen of the White Earth Anishinabe Nation. Her novel Girl Gone Missing is the second in the Cash Blackbear series. The first, Murder on the Red River won the Pinckley Women’s Debut Crime Novel Award in 2018. It was a Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist 2018 in the Contemporary Novel category. Her two nonfiction children’s books are Pow Wow Summer and Farmer’s Market: Families Working Together. Rendon was recognized as a 50 over 50 Change-maker by MN AARP and POLLEN, 2018. With four published plays she is the creative mind of Raving Native Theater.

About Siiri Scott

Siiri Scott is the head of acting and directing at the University of Notre Dame. She received her MFA in acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University and now teaches advanced acting, voice, dialects, and movement. An actor/director/educator, Siiri is an artistic associate with the Irish Theatre of Chicago and a Theatre Nohgaku company member. Based in Chicago, Siiri narrates audiobooks and voices commercials, industrials, and museum installations.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelly on March 16, 2017

As someone who lives in Fargo, the setting of this novel rang true, and the character of Cash drew me in right away. She defies gender stereotypes as a nineteen-year-old Native girl who drives trucks for farmers in the Red River Valley during the day and earns free beers playing pool at night. In ad......more

Goodreads review by Rincey on June 02, 2018

3.5 stars. Really solid book, a bit of a slow burn that is much more about the main character and life for a Native American in Fargo, ND in the 1970s than it is about the larger mystery. See me talk about this book briefly in my February wrap up: [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes on May 10, 2023

The main character of ‘Murder on the Red River’ by Marcie R. Rendon is Renee Blackbear, but she calls herself Cash. The novel feels like it will be book one in a series, but so far, there is only this one which basically is an origin story. The tone of the writing reminds me a lot of the style Marci......more

Goodreads review by ♥Milica♥ on March 13, 2025

Take a shot every time Cash drinks or needs a cigarette (please don't!!). That's mostly what she does (along with playing pool), and yet, I really loved this book. The mystery isn't that prominent in the story compared to everything else, but I enjoyed the way Cash was slowly absorbed into the case,......more

Quotes

“This accomplished author has clearly undertaken more than a murder story…she finds new depth and an ample storytelling platform for her informed views on the historic persecution of Indians.” Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Rendon delves deep into the history of Native American communities and the danger of forcing assimilation on a community outside the mainstream of American cultural norms.” Twin Cities Pioneer Press

“An appealing nineteen-year-old heroine, Renee ‘Cash’ Blackbear, lifts Rendon’s first mystery.” Publishers Weekly

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