Deborama’s Books — A couple of books by a Native American author

Marcie Rendon’s Murder on the Red River and Girl Gone Missing

Marcie Rendon’s Murder on the Red River and Girl Gone Missing
I read the first book in this series, which is currently only these two, as a library book. (According to Goodreads.com, I finished it exactly two years ago, 11/11/2019.) Then I bought the second one when I went to a Native American farmers’ market in my town (Minneapolis) run by a group called Dream of Wild Health, to pick up some food I had pre-ordered. How does one buy a book at a farmers’ market? Well, Marcie Rendon herself had a booth there, sitting in the shade of a canopy with a table and a few copies of her books, because why not? Then I decided, since I owned the second one and am trying to get rid of books (even good ones, yes, that’s pretty much all I have; bad ones I don’t hang on to) that I would have to go and buy the first one so I could give the pair as a gift.

This gave me an excuse to visit Birchbark Books and Native Arts, one of the few independent bookstores in the Twin Cities I had not visited yet. So that’s what I did. I still haven’t gifted them, but I’m going to.

The series centers on a young woman living in Fargo, the North Dakota town across the Red River from Moorhead, Minnesota. These two are often referred to as one, Fargo-Moorhead, and are largest towns in an area called the Red River Valley…