by Stef Penney
"And so while my husband sleeps upstairs we pack–and I prepare to go into the wilderness with a suspected killer. What’s worse, a man I haven’t been properly introduced to. I am too shocked to feel fear, too excited to care about the impropriety of it. I suppose if you have already lost what matters...
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Bet if you look in the Book of Quotations for this saying, you will find the cover of The Tenderness of Wolves as the illustration. Upon being lent this book, nothing about it appealed to me. Not the odd title. Not the somewhat muted, depressing cover with wolves...
A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees the tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. It is Mrs. Ross's knock on the door of the largest house in Caulfield that launches the investigation. Within hours she will regret that knock ...
I had trouble getting into this book, and when I finally did, I kept reading and reading, hoping that something would happen and things would pick up. The murder mystery aspect was intriguing, but it seemed that all the others did was track others through the Canadian winter wilderness. I did thin...
It is oficially one of my favourite books ever. IT was so.. touching, but in a very simple way. In a way that gets to a reader, beacuse it can somehow relate to it. It would of course be hard to relate to the events in this book (as they envolve indians, rifles, murders, remote villages, wolves and ...
Set in nineteenth century Canada, The Tenderness Of Wolves is the story of how an isolated community is affected by the murder and scalping of one of their number, albeit a relative outsider. Suspicions quickly settle on Frances, the adopted son of two of the community's earliest settlers, who has d...
re-read via bbc7 this week - scrumptious.Stef Penney's mystery stars Meg Fraser.
I really loved this book, it was well written, great characters, great setting, a twist I didn't see coming, just a great read!
An excellent mystery set in Ontario during the times when the Hudson's Bay Company was the end all and be all of the country. I loved the diversity of the characters, the hunt for the killer, and the references to places I know. The combination made for good reading.
This was an enjoyable historical mystery set in the Canadian wilderness in the middle of winter. The one thing that bugged me throughout is why all these people kept hiking through the snow and didn't use either skis or, more likely, snowshoes. Finally at the end of the book, someone was smart enoug...
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