Sinister Graves

'Addictive and authentically Native. I want a shelf of Cash Blackbear novels' - LOUISE ERDRICH

'Rendon writes the way Anishinaabe people view the world - full of rich descriptions and layered storytelling' - ANGELINE BOULLEY

Spring, 1972. Red River Valley has flooded, the cornfields transformed into an icy, snowmelt lake. As the waters flow into the small town of Ada, they bring with them the body of an unidentified woman. The only clue on her person: a page torn from a hymnal, linking her to the White Earth Reservation.

Cash Blackbear - friend and confidant to the town's sheriff - is no stranger to White Earth. She once called the reservation her home, until she was thrust into the foster care system like so many other Ojibwe children. After a reluctant visit to the reservation's radical church, Cash becomes embroiled in the lives of the strange pastor and his wife. But what secrets are they hiding? And who is buried in the unmarked graves outside?