7 Top indigenous books like Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1) by Marcie R. Rendon

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Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Set in 1970s along Red River Valley, Marcie R. Rendon's gripping new mystery follows the life of a …

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1. The Days of Rondo (Minnesota)

By: Evelyn Fairbanks

3.94

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the 1930s and the 1940s Rondo Avenue was at the heart of St. Paul's largest black neighborhood. … read more

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2. A Hard Ticket Home (Mac McKenzie, #1)

By: David Housewright

2.43

Format: None pages,

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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3. Nail's Crossing (Bill Maytubby & Hannah Bond Mystery #1)

By: Kris Lackey

4.37

Format: None pages,

This debut mystery from a fresh voice in Southwestern fiction stakes out the common ground between … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Tin City (Mac McKenzie, #2)

By: David Housewright

3.86

Format: 323 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Mac McKenzie is rich. So rich that he's left his job as a Twin Cities police officer and spends his… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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5. Shutter

By: Ramona Emerson

3.80

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller,… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Downtown Village was one of the oldest apartment buildings in Albuquerque, rising five stories above the street below. The first four floors housed six small apartments, each just like the one next t…"

-Ramona Emerson, Shutter

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6. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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7. Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.21

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthi… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • native american
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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9. Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Set in 1970s along Red River Valley, Marcie R. Rendon's gripping new mystery follows the life of a … read more

Similar categories in Marcie R. Rendon's Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1) book and Marcie R. Rendon's Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Blackwater Falls (Blackwater Falls, #1)

By: Ausma Zehanat Khan

3.75

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blackwater Falls is the first in a timely and … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. Warrior Girl Unearthed

By: Angeline Boulley

4.34

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that wa… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Some friendships can endure anything."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Sometimes you need to protect your heart from the pain."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"Everything is connected. The past. The future. The beginning and ending."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

"You jump, and I'll catch you. Every time. I'm your ride or die, niijiikwe."

-Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

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12. Indian Burial Ground

By: Nick Medina

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right an… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"What happened in the cemetery causes us pain, not her. You understand that, don’t you?"

-Nick Medina, Indian Burial Ground

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13. Winter Counts

By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden

3.84

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dange… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"There is no word for goodbye in Lakota. That's what my mother used to tell me. Sure, there are words like toksa, which meant "later," that were used by people as a modern substitute. She'd told me la…"

-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts

"But as I thought about it, I liked the idea more and more. Depredation claims. If something was stolen from you, all you had to do was file a claim and your losses would be restored. How about a depr…"

-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts

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14. Blood Sisters

By: Vanessa Lillie

3.85

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs wh… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Lillie's Blood Sisters book and Marcie R. Rendon's Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Sisters of the Lost Nation

By: Nick Medina

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's r… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear."

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"We all reach for something… Sometimes what we long for is so out of reach that we get stuck or lost in our pursuit of it. The point is not to lose sight of what you already have because if you try to…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the sam…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

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16. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • native american
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik)

By: Carol Rose GoldenEagle

4.13

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) navigates the unsettling, but necessary. When love of, and r… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • indigenous
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18. Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch, #15)

By: Paul Doiron

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters

By: Cary J. Griffith

3.88

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness’s epochal weather disaster   O… read more

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20. Black and Blue

By: Frank F. Weber

4.26

Format: None pages, None

The true story of the search for 19-year-old Sadie Sullivan's killer. A chance meeting between Offi… read more

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21. The Girl in Duluth

By: Sigrid Brown

3.44

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

When 18-year-old June Bergeron’s mother goes missing, June fears the disappearance could be connect… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

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