Sinister Graves, Marcie R. Rendon
Sinister Graves, Marcie R. Rendon
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Sinister Graves

Author: Marcie R. Rendon

Narrator: Isabella Star LaBlanc

Unabridged: 6 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/11/2022


Synopsis

Minnesota, 1970s: A snowmelt has sent floodwaters down to the fields of the Red River Valley, dragging the body of an unidentified Native woman into the town of Ada. The only evidence the medical examiner recovers is a torn piece of paper inside her bra: a hymn written in English and Ojibwe.

Cash Blackbear, a 19-year-old, tough-as-nails Ojibwe woman, sometimes uses her special abilities to help Sheriff Wheaton, her guardian, with his investigations.

When Cash sees the hymn, she knows her search for justice for this anonymous victim will lead her somewhere she hasn’t been in over a decade: the White Earth Reservation, a place she once called home.

When Cash happens upon two small graves in the yard of a rural, “speak-intongues kinda church,” she is pulled into the lives of the pastor and his wife while yet another Native woman turns up dead and her newborn is nowhere to be found.

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by ♥Milica♥ on March 15, 2025

I started listening to this and thought "huh, Cash sounds different, the narrator isn't putting on that gruff voice for her anymore" only to realise...they changed narrators for this book for some reason? I don't mind it, even though I was getting used to the previous one, I feel like that one proba......more

Goodreads review by Debbie on September 16, 2022

This book is about when a Native American woman's body is found in Minnesota, 1970s after retrieving the body the only evidence the medical examiner found was a torn piece of paper inside her bra, A hymn written in English and Ojibwe. Cash Blackbear, A 19 year old Ojibwe woman, sometimes uses her sp......more

Goodreads review by Anna on December 16, 2022

2.5 The extra half star is just for Cash as a character Disappointed in the use of a certain mental health diagnosis as a plot point......more

Goodreads review by Martin on September 05, 2022

Sinister Graves, the latest novel by Marcie R. Rendon, will be released on October 11, 2022. Soho Press provided an early galley for review. I got to know this author and series from the first title Murder On the Red River which we read for our library book club a few months back. I recently read the......more