The tenderness of wolves
By: Stef Penney
Edition: 1st Simons & Schuster ed
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781416540748
Subjects: Trappers -- Crimes against -- Fiction; Missing persons -- Fiction; Frontier and pioneer life -- Canada -- Fiction; Canada -- History -- 1841-1867 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: 1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, an isolated settlement in Canada's Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. But soon she makes another discovery: her son has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect. A variety of outsiders are drawn to the crime and to the township--but do they want to solve the crime or exploit it? One by one, searchers set out to follow the tracks across a desolate landscape, variously seeking a murderer, a son, two sisters missing for seventeen years, and a forgotten Native American culture before the snows settle and cover the tracks of the past for good.--From publisher description
Notes: Originally published: London : Quercus, 2006