num_pages: 450
description: 1867, Canada.As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a woman steels herself for the journey of a lifetime. A man has been brutally murdered and her seventeen-year old son has disappeared. The violence has re-opened old wounds and inflamed deep-running tensions in the frontier township - some want to solve the crime; others seek only to exploit it.To clear her son's name, she has no choice but to follow the tracks leaving the dead man's cabin and head north into the forest and the desolate landscape that lies beyond it... (blurb)
language: English
title: The Tenderness of Wolves
titlecomplete: The Tenderness of Wolves
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Book Club, Canada, Novels, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 15153
places: Ontario, Canada
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Costa Book Award
category: First Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Costa Book of the Year, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year
publisher: Quercus