In quiet towns and wide open spaces, danger waits just below the surface in two atmospheric thrillers. In Broken Fields, Marcie R. Rendon returns to 1970s Minnesota, where Cash Blackbear finds herself drawn into the mystery of a murdered farmer, a missing couple and a terrified child. As she races to uncover the truth, she must navigate a tangled web of violence, exploitation and resistance, all while fighting to protect a girl on the brink of being lost to the system. In Son, Norway’s Thomas Enger introduces psychologist Kari Voss, haunted by her son’s unsolved disappearance and thrust into a grisly case involving two murdered teenagers in a small Norwegian town. Co-written with Johana Gustawson, secrets unravel, trust fractures and Kari must rely on her sharp instincts and deeper grief to track a killer, even if it means confronting terrifying truths from her own past.
Moderated by Steven Beattie.
Enger’s appearance is supported by NORLA – Norwegian Literature Abroad.
Generously supported by The Lynn and Brent Belzberg Foundation.
Everyone here is lying…
Expert on body language and memory, and consultant to the Oslo Police, psychologist Kari Voss sleepwalks through her days, and, by night, continues the devastating search for her young son, who disappeared on his birthday, seven years earlier. Still grieving for her dead husband, and trying to pull together the pieces of her life, she is thrust into a shocking local investigation, when two teenage girls are violently murdered in a family summer home in the nearby village of Son.
Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman and occasional sleuth, is back on the case after a man is found dead on a rural Minnesota farm in the next installment of the acclaimed Native crime series.
Minnesota, 1970s: It’s spring in the Red River Valley and Cash Blackbear is doing fieldwork for a local farmer—until she finds him dead on the kitchen floor of the property’s rented farmhouse. The tenant, a Native field laborer, and his wife are nowhere to be found, but Cash discovers their young daughter, Shawnee, cowering under a bed.
Thomas Enger is the author of the critically acclaimed Henning Juul series, the Blix and Ramm series co-written with Jørn Lier Horst, as well as the author of four books for young adults. He has also written a standalone novel. SON is his first collaboration with Johana Gustawsson.
Marcie Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, a Pinckley Prize-winning author, playwright, poet, freelance writer and a community arts activist. Rendon was awarded the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award for 2020.
Sun, June 29, 2025
A book signing will follow this event
Emmanuel College, Room 119
75 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto, ON
