Broken Fields by Marcie R. Rendon

March 08, 2025

Marcie R. Rendon, author of the powerful novel Where They Last Saw Her, brings back her series character, Cash Blackbear, in a another traumatic, thought-provoking mystery, Broken Fields. This time, it’s Cash and a young Native girl who suffer through current...

The Quiet LIbrarian by Allen Eskens

February 17, 2025

Allen Eskens’ standalone, The Quiet Librarian, is not an easy book to read with its descriptions of violence and war in Bosnia. But, like The Life We Bury, it’s a book we should read. In 1995, Nura Divjak was a Muslim teenager living in Bosnia with her...

Kevin’s Corner Annex – Resort to Murder

December 04, 2024

The last time Kevin Tipple reviewed a book here, he discussed The Silence of the Loons. That was the first volume of short stories by “Minnesota’s Premiere Mystery Writers”. Resort to Murder This volume followed The Silence of the Loons. Again,...

Kevin’s Corner Annex – The Silence of the Loons

November 23, 2024

While I was reading a story collection by some of Britain’s foremost mystery authors, Kevin Tipple shared a collection by “Minnesota’s Premiere Mystery Writers”, The Silence of the Loons. The book came out quite a while ago, so it’s about...

Where They Last Saw Her by Marcie R. Rendon

October 05, 2024

Powerful. Provocative. Disturbing. Those are the words I’d use to describe Marcie R. Rendon’s standalone, Where They Last Saw Her. The author of the Cash Blackbear series returns to a familiar theme, #mmiw. Missing or Murdered Indian Women. U.S. and...