 Popsugar Reading Challenge category: A book about a running club.
Where They Last Saw Her, by Marcie R. Rendon. This is a thriller set on an Ojibwe reservation in Minnesota, and the author weaves in information about the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Quill is running in the woods when she hears a scream, and later learn that a woman has disappeared. She has suspicions about the nearby "man camp" of pipeline workers. Other women and girls disappear over the course of the book, and Quill and her friends start running together for safety. The author does a good job of creating atmosphere: the cold quiet of a Minnesota winter, the vivid red of the women's skirts at an event to draw attention to the missing women (because red is the only color spirits can see). Fictional characters are allowed to make mistakes, of course; it would be boring if they only made good decisions. But Quill makes SO MANY bad decisions that I got completely exasperated with her. Repeatedly putting herself in danger. Keeping information from her husband. Hanging on to evidence that should go to the police (and for an unconvincing reason). And missing a whole clothesline's worth of red flags when a friend is in danger. Some of the disappearances end in rescue, some in rescue - and, realistically, there's at least one where we'll never know what happened.
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