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1867: A raw and desolate place, where tracks are found in the snow leading to nowhere
The Tenderness of Wolves
What you need to know before your trail
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.
The mystery becomes something everyone from locals to curious outsiders want to investigate. But are some trying to exploit it in some way? They follow the tracks but it soon becomes clear that each person has their own reason for searching and their own secret to hide.
Travel Guide
The back of the white book cover – evocative of the snow, it says in red letters, the colour of blood
1867 Canada
Stark and grisly with the wolf on the front, this more than sets the scene for the horrors going on in the wildest of wildernesses.
The narrator of all this is Mrs Ross, Scottish and an ex-asylum inmate who discovers the body of a French trapper. He has been murdered in the most horrific of ways amidst the beauty of his cottage at Dove River.
The mystery of the murder blends seamlessly with the mystery of the surroundings for not only as the son of the victim missing but some money too and a piece of bone with something written on it. This could give clues to the written culture of the “Indians’ who live in these parts.
The investigation and subsequent trekking around the landscape literally following in the footsteps of those who might have passed by the are lead to suspicions that the Chereokee indians might be involved. the fur trading company which operates in the area is also included in investigations as to who may have committed this crime.
All in all this story is a trek across mountains and snowy landscapes with Mrs Ross trying to find out what happened. But while they hunt for the truth, someone or something is hunting them.
A landscape and a story to be explored. The Canadian wilderness jumps from the page (as do the wolves) Brrr
Georgian Bay is supposedly the fictional Dove River in the novel, a bay on Lake Huron, second-largest of the Great Lakes. The settlement of Caulfield and Dove river are fictional yet are evocative of the Georgian Bay region.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Tenderness of Wolves
Author/Guide: Stef Penney Destination: Georgian Bay, Canada Departure Time: 1867
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