- Frontier and pioneer life, Crimes against, Fiction, Trappers
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.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Stef Penney
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, Quercus
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781905204816
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