Ancient Lands and New Wounds in the “Cash Murder Mystery Series” – Chicago Review of Books

Ancient Lands and New Wounds in the “Cash Murder Mystery Series” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Marcie Rendon’s mystery novels simultaneously inform and entertain readers, presenting current Native American issues through her heroine’s efforts to solve crimes perpetrated against society’s more vulnerable members in the early 1970s. When the Cash Blackburn series’ third volume opens, a body surfaces in the Red River Valley’s meltwater; the spring floodwaters on this North … Read more

The Fire of Trauma in “The Ancient Hours” – Chicago Review of Books

The Fire of Trauma in “The Ancient Hours” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The first sentence of Michael Bible’s latest novel, The Ancient Hours, is a lie. “We were innocent,” is an immediate provocation that gives the impression of someone in an interrogation room telling authorities a story agreed upon by a group of accomplices.  Bible makes a bold statement beginning with this line, and also by … Read more