Sinister Graves

Oct 2022 8

Crime Writers of Color Coming Attractions: October – December 2022

2022 Articles, Coming Attractions!, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Elizabeth Wilkerson

Few things are as upsetting as reading the final page of a satisfying book. The End. Two words as unwelcomed as the last day of vacation. Two words that mean new friends are vanishing along with a familiar setting.

I Am Not My Main Character

2022 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Marcie Rendon

My protagonist in the Cash Blackbear crime series is a nineteen-year-old Ojibwe woman who has aged out of foster care in the early 1970s. She drinks beer, smokes cigarettes, and works as a farm laborer in the Red River Valley of the North. Short and lithe with waist length dark hair, she shoots a mean game of pool at barroom billiard tables. And she helps the local county sheriff solve crimes.