Arikara Point

by Jeff Rice

When Prof. Melrose Gregg gets a call from a man from his past, little does he know that a lot of his past is about to catch up with him. The assassination of an old mentor leaves him with precious little in the way of clues. He consults a long-time mentor and a series of archeologists as he tries piece together a puzzle involving Native American artifacts and byzantine water laws. Against his better judgement, he returns to his childhood home, a source of multiple traumas, and relives old heartbreaks and long-forgotten torments, all while trying to fend off his own inner demons. Finally, finding himself facing an old enemy and with a gun in his hand, Mel Gregg does the unthinkable.

147 pages, Paperback

Published September 20, 2021

About the author

Jeffrey Grant Rice was born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA in 1944. He spent his early childhood in Beverly Hills. He has been a Las Vegas resident since 1955.

Jeff Rice is best known as the author of The Kolchak Papers, a novel he finished on October 31, 1970. Rice’s novel was still unpublished when it was optioned for television and adapted for a TV audience as The Night Stalker. It subsequently had a brief print run when the Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV series grew in popularity. In 2007 Moonstone Books released a new edition which also includes the sequel, The Night Strangler.