It is 1867 Canada as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement ofDove River a man is brutally murdered and a 17year old boy disappears. Tracksleaving ... » 

It is 1867 Canada as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement ofDove River a man is brutally murdered and a 17year old boy disappears. Tracksleaving the dead mans cabin head north towards the forest and the tundrabeyond. In the wake of such violence people are drawn to the township journalists Hudsons Bay Company men trappers traders but do they want tosolve the crime or exploit it? Onebyone the assembled searchers set out fromDove River pursuing the tracks across a desolate landscape home only to wildanimals madmen and fugitives variously seeking a murderer a son two sistersmissing for 17 years a Native American culture and a fortune in stolen fursbefore the snows settle and cover the tracks of the past for good. In anastonishingly assured debut Stef Penney deftly waves adventure suspenserevelation and humour into a panoramic historical romance an exhilaratingthriller a keen murder mystery and ultimately with the sheer scope andquality of her storytelling one of the books of the year.As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dover River a woman steels herself for the journey of a lifetime. A man has been brutally murdered and her seventeenyearold son has disappeared. The violence has reopened old wounds and inflamed deeprunning tensions in the frontier township some want to solve the crime others seek only to exploit it. To clear her sons name she has no choice but to follow the tracks leaving the dead mans cabin and head north into the forest and the desolate landscape that lies beyond it... BKEngels07Vreemdtalig07TOPUK «