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I liked this but not as much as I thought I would. It was good to catch up with Cash and Wheaton again. The mystery was interesting, and the background story was poignant. However, it didn‘t completely work for me in a way I can‘t quite identify. Still, I hope there‘s a book five.

Alas, this doesn‘t fit any #ChristmasCrimeChallenge prompts I haven‘t done already.

#bookspin #serieslove2025 #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

Excellent writing with interesting characters, this book kept a steady pace and had a satisfactory ending for me. Recommended if you like introspective main characters, and a midwestern setting where not all the character threads are tied off neatly at the end.

I wasn‘t sure I would continue with this series after the last installment. The situations Cash was placed into made me angry with the other characters who kept putting her in danger. And Cash‘s moral ambiguity was a challenge. In many ways, I think this is one of the best in the series so far. It explores similar themes, yes, but with a fresh angle that develops the characters in new ways. I‘m glad I decided to keep going with the series!

My local library is having a week! My held copy of Brigands & Breadknives is sitting there until December, so I was happy when the tagged book became available on Libby. After all that and a busy weekend, it‘s nice to put up my feet and read for the evening. #hyggehourreadathon

Cash is back! She is haunted by the lengths she has had to go to survive and her gifts seem to be on the fritz, but she is still the first to discover the murder of a wealthy farmer. A young native girl abandoned by her parents is the only witness. Cash has to solve the murder and find the girl‘s parents before more lives are ruined. A 4 ⭐️ read. Rendon‘s love of MN and her community are evident.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

Let‘s try this again! Here‘s my November list properly edited. Since I‘m currently reading an English countryside murder mystery, I‘ll start with Marcie Rendon as my first #bookspin selection.

She was sweet and so fun to listen to!!

I‘m late to the Cork O‘Connor world, even though a friend has been urging me to read this series for years. This is book 2 of now-20, I think? It‘s an entertaining-enough read, but I likely won‘t remember the plot by next week. I do enjoy reading the parts about the Anishinaabe history, language and culture.

Ezra Cloud is an Ojibwe high school student who splits his time between Northeast Minneapolis where his father works as a college professor and Red Gut in Canada where his grandparents live a traditional life of hunting and trapping. After an incident with another student at school and a fire at the student‘s house, his family decides he will move spend the winter with his grandparents. ⬇️