Crime Fiction Goes Native - Conservative Angle

Crime Fiction Goes Native - Conservative Angle

Marcie Rendon was in her mid-60s when her first novel, Murder on the Red River, was published in 2017. She had written for the theater, plus a couple of children’s books, and her bio line also describes her as a “community arts activist,” but nothing she’d done up to that point would have suggested she was about to embark on what Louise Erdrich—the doyenne of Native American novelists—has described as an “addictive and authentically Native crime…

Crime Fiction Goes Native

Marcie Rendon was in her mid-60s when her first novel, Murder on the Red River, was published in 2017. She had written for the theater, plus a couple of children’s books, and her bio line also describes her as a "community arts activist," but nothing she’d done up to that point would have…