The River Walk Child: A Novel of Artistic Endeavors

Andrea Stratham, a detective from Bemidji, Minnesota, is recovering from a near death wound received while solving a pair of homicides that occurred close to the Itasca Park headwaters of the Mississippi river at a takeout called Coffee Pot Landing. While an out-patient at a Bison River hospital, Andrea is tormented by nightmares and psychic pain from losing what would have been her baby with Whitefeather, a native American who saved her life and to whom she had become engaged. Her downward spiral threatens to end in an alcoholic stupor. Her colleague, Dr. Soraya Chandrisi, appears and arranges a recovery solution for Andrea involving a return to undercover detective work in the Bison River area. What began as a simple case of petty larceny quickly becomes an international art-for-drugs-for-money trafficking conspiracy stretching across three continents.The River Walk Child is the second of two Andrea-Soraya crime solving mysteries set in western Minnesota and eastern North Dakota lakes, forests and farmlands. Dr. Weir's first novel, Murder at Coffee Pot Landing, introduced readers to a pair of female detectives who were confronted with a double murder complicated by Covid 19 and a sinister villain bent on destroying their very existence. New plot developments, an orphaned child, and a mysterious guitar player confront the crime solvers again while exploring intriguing challenges found in the world of modern abstract art.The fictional town of Bison River is located a few miles south of Fargo, North Dakota where Ivan Weir lives with his artist wife, Marjorie Schlossman, and their Yorkie-Poodle, Decaf. They share a blended family of eight adult children and a growing number of grandchildren. Read more