Murder on the Red River

Renee "Cash" Blackbear, a 19-year-old, tough-as-nails, resilient Ojibwe woman, has lived all her life in Fargo, sister city to Minnesota's Moorhead, just downriver from the Cities. Her life revolves around driving trucks for local farmers, drinking beer, playing pool, smoking cigarettes, and solving criminal investigations through the power of her visions. She has one friend, Sheriff Wheaton, who is also her guardian and helped her out of the broken foster care system. Together they must work to solve a cross-cultural murder in a rural Midwest community layered in racism, genocide, and oppression.

Set in the 1970s along the Red River Valley, Marcie R. Rendon's gripping mystery follows the life of a young Ojibwe woman as she struggles to come to terms with the callous murder of a Native American stranger, bringing to life the gritty, dark reality of a flawed foster care system and the oppression of Indigenous people.