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1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township - journalists, Hudson's Bay Company men, trappers, traders - but do they want to solve the crime or exploit it? One-by-one the assembled searchers set out from Dove River, pursuing the tracks across a desolate landscape home only to wild animals, madmen and fugitives, variously seeking a murderer, a son, two sisters missing for 17 years, a Native American culture, and a fortune in stolen furs before the snows settle and cover the tracks of the past for good. In an astonishingly assured debut, Stef Penney deftly weaves adventure, suspense, revelation and humour into a panoramic historical romance, an exhilarating thriller, a keen murder mystery and ultimately, with the sheer scope and quality of her storytelling, one of the books of the year.
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A fascinating, suspense-filled adventure, a refreshing contrast to the conventional murder mystery - Sunday Telegraph (Sunday Telegraph)
A quite remarkable debut novel...atmospheric and delicately written mystery - Birmingham Post (Birmingham Post)
An entertaining and well-written adventure thriller - Spectator (Spectator)
An original and readable mixture of mystery and history, with a good dollop of old-fashioned adventure - The Times (The Times)
Suspenseful epic, offering a leitmotif of constant unease . impressive - Guardian (Guardian)
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A quite remarkable debut novel...atmospheric and delicately written mystery - Birmingham Post (Birmingham Post)
An entertaining and well-written adventure thriller - Spectator (Spectator)
An original and readable mixture of mystery and history, with a good dollop of old-fashioned adventure - The Times (The Times)
Suspenseful epic, offering a leitmotif of constant unease . impressive - Guardian (Guardian)
Review for Tenderness of Wolves:
an intensely atmospheric murder mystery that consolidates its hold with
each serpentine contortion of the narrative and every new character that
drifts into its frame ... it is by dint of sheer imaginative heft that
Penney's immense tale allows one to feel the tundra's perishing chill in
the bones every bit as authentically as the wintry tableaux of Annie Proulx
... robust craftsmanship, cracking storytelling and cinematically evoked
panoramas that recall the finest westerns - Sunday Times, Pick of the Week
an intensely atmospheric murder mystery that consolidates its hold with
each serpentine contortion of the narrative and every new character that
drifts into its frame ... it is by dint of sheer imaginative heft that
Penney's immense tale allows one to feel the tundra's perishing chill in
the bones every bit as authentically as the wintry tableaux of Annie Proulx
... robust craftsmanship, cracking storytelling and cinematically evoked
panoramas that recall the finest westerns - Sunday Times, Pick of the Week
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- PublisherQuercus Publishing
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1847242952
- ISBN 13 9781847242952
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages496
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