Cruzatte and Maria

by Peter Bowen

Published 14 March 2001
In his eighth outing, Metis-Indian fiddler, tracker and amateur sleuth Gabriel Du Pre is called upon to act as historical advisor for a documentary film about the Lewis & Clark expedition. When Du Pre arrives at the shooting site, major trouble is brewing between the local community and the film makers: first, the star quits and then someone sets fire to the props. But when two bodies are fished out of the Missouri River, the stakes rise dramatically. And when Du Pre stumbles upon a secret cache containing Merriweather Clark's journals, tensions rise to a boiling point.