The Tenderness of Wolves Paperback by Stef Penney

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Canada (2007-09-04)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 448 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780143052135
• Item Weight: 371.95 grams
• Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.22 x 1.17 cm

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
THEAKSTONS CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR

As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Canada’s Dove River in 1867, a man is brutally murdered and a seventeen-year-old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man’s cabin head north toward the forestand the tundra beyond.

In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township—journalists, Hudson 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 missing sisters, a forgotten Native culture, and a fortune in stolen furs.

In an astonishingly assured debut, Stef Penney weaves adventure, suspense, revelation, and humour into a gripping historical tale, an exhilarating thriller, and a keen murder mystery.

About the Author

STEF PENNEY was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is a screenwriter, author of five novels, and has also written extensively for radio. Her first novel, The Tenderness of Wolves, won Costa's First Novel Award, the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year, and was translated into thirty languages.