Reviewed By: Carl Brookins - RAM
The Dream Stalker
Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Margaret Coel
Class/Genre: Mystery
Series: Wind River Reservation Mysteries # 3
Berkely; Sept 1998; $5.00; 260pp.
This is a wonderful, well-handled, cautionary tale for the time.
A big Chicago corporation has plans to build a nuclear waste
storage facility on a ranch in the Wind River Reservation. Jobs,
mega-bucks, prosperity, loom on the horizon for the Arapaho
nation. So why do some of the tribal elders and an Arapaho
attorney first hesitate and then oppose the plan? Some on the
reservation insist the attorney, Vicky Holden, has gone over to
the white world. Others wonder about her relationship with the
Jesuit father who runs the St. Francis mission on the
reservation. And then, murder comes to call.
Once again author Margaret Coel has dipped into the history of an Indian nation, married it to very modern concerns and created a story that will enthrall and move the reader. The very real temptations, and tribulations of well sculpted characters, as well as the external pressures that cause any of us to stumble and sometimes fall, are carefully played out against a tapestry of global concerns. I recommend this book and I recommend this series.
Carl Brookins - RAM
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