native artists / writers / creators to pursue their art, and is a speaker for colleges and community groups on Native issues, leadership, writing.
She is an award-winning author of a fresh new murder mystery series, and also has an extensive body of fiction and nonfiction works.
Rendon applied the Page 69 Test to Broken Fields, her newest Cash Blackbear Mystery, and reported the following:
Not only does Broken Fields start with a dead man and young child mute with shock, but by page 69 Cash is also trying to track down Sheriff Wheaton, who she knows drove to Twin Valley to check out a bank robbery.Visit Marcie R. Rendon's website.
At the bank Cash is in conversation with a female bank clerk and a barely-of-legal-age male bank clerk. Both were victims of the robbery and both are good eyewitnesses, able to describe the robbers. “It was two young men, didn’t look like hoodlums at all. Dressed like ‘going to town’. Tall, skinny guy and a shorter one. Both wore handkerchiefs over their mouths. After we handed over the money they ran out and jumped in the car. Driven by a young woman. All I could tell was she was wearing a yellow dress, yellow blouse maybe.”
That particular scene foretells Wheaton’s misconception and misfortune a few pages on.
The last time either bank teller saw Wheaton he was headed southwest of Twin Valley.
In typical Cash fashion, Cash leaves the bank and stands by her Ranchero, observing the near-empty streets of the small town while lighting a cigarette and inhaling, exhaling. Then she gets in the Ranchero and drives west on the trail of Wheaton.
In the Cash Blackbear series, Wheaton has been Cash’s rescuer and mentor. He is the one benign person the troubled nineteen year old can count on. Page 69 doesn’t describe the worry she feels. In typical Cash fashion she keeps her feelings under wrap and key. It isn’t until page 75 that her inner turmoil erupts.
The Page 69 Test: Sinister Graves.
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--Marshal Zeringue
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