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Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman and occasional sleuth, is back on the case after a man is found dead
on a rural Minnesota farm in the next installment of the acclaimed Native crime series.
1970s: It's spring in the Red River Valley and Cash Blackbear is doing field work for a local farmer-until she
finds him dead on the kitchen floor of the property's rented farmhouse. The tenant, a Native field laborer, and
his wife are nowhere to be found, but Cash finds their young daughter, Shawnee, cowering under a bed. The
girl, a possible witness to the killing, is too terrified to speak.
In the wake of the murder, Cash can't deny her intuitive abilities: she is suspicious of the farmer's grieving widow,
who offers to take in Shawnee temporarily. While Cash is scouring White Earth Reservation for Shawnee's
missing mother-whom Cash wants to find before the girl is put in the foster system-another body turns up.
Concerned by the escalating threat, Cash races against the clock to figure out the truth of what happened in
the farmhouse.
Broken Fields is a compelling, atmospheric read woven with details of American Indian life in northern
Minnesota, abusive farm labor practices and women's liberation.
Story Locale:Minnesota, 1970s
Series Overview: Cash Blackbear is a young Ojibwe woman whose visions and grit help her solve brutal crimes
in the 1970s in the Red River Valley.
on a rural Minnesota farm in the next installment of the acclaimed Native crime series.
1970s: It's spring in the Red River Valley and Cash Blackbear is doing field work for a local farmer-until she
finds him dead on the kitchen floor of the property's rented farmhouse. The tenant, a Native field laborer, and
his wife are nowhere to be found, but Cash finds their young daughter, Shawnee, cowering under a bed. The
girl, a possible witness to the killing, is too terrified to speak.
In the wake of the murder, Cash can't deny her intuitive abilities: she is suspicious of the farmer's grieving widow,
who offers to take in Shawnee temporarily. While Cash is scouring White Earth Reservation for Shawnee's
missing mother-whom Cash wants to find before the girl is put in the foster system-another body turns up.
Concerned by the escalating threat, Cash races against the clock to figure out the truth of what happened in
the farmhouse.
Broken Fields is a compelling, atmospheric read woven with details of American Indian life in northern
Minnesota, abusive farm labor practices and women's liberation.
Story Locale:Minnesota, 1970s
Series Overview: Cash Blackbear is a young Ojibwe woman whose visions and grit help her solve brutal crimes
in the 1970s in the Red River Valley.
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