Caryl Férey tracks a Lakota family through the Mississippi
A review in Le Courrier outlines the opening of a new novel by the French crime writer, built around the death of a Lakota veteran and his two children.
Le Courrier has published a review of a new novel by Caryl Férey that opens with a body pulled from the Mississippi in Minneapolis. The dead man, Jake Crow Dog, is a Lakota war veteran described as solitary and violent, and the police show little interest in his death, according to the Swiss paper.
The investigation that follows centers on his two children, Duane and Winona, whom the review calls 'attachants' — engaging, sympathetic figures. Le Courrier notes that Duane shares his first name with the lover of Dalva, the heroine of Jim Harrison's novel, a detail the reviewer flags without elaborating further.
Férey, known for noir fiction set in far-flung places from Patagonia to New Zealand, appears here to be turning his attention to Native American territory in the United States, following a Lakota family's story through an indifferent justice system.
The source material available to this desk is limited to Le Courrier's short review, which does not give the novel's title, publisher or publication date. Readers who keep track of Férey's work should watch for those details as they surface.
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