The Tenderness of Wolves

Stef Penney · 2006 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

In 1867 a trapper is found murdered in a remote Canadian fur-trading settlement, and Mrs Ross, whose teenage son has vanished the same night, sets out on his trail in the snow. A debut novel that joins a murder investigation to a frontier survival story.

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