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Article: `The Tenderness of Wolves': A whodunit that tracks craftily through the wilderness.
- Article from:
- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2007
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Byline: Susan Balee
"The Tenderness of Wolves" by Stef Penney; Simon & Schuster ($25)
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Cold and refreshing, this murder-mystery-cum-historical novel will transport you from Indian summer in Philadelphia to a snowy winter in the Canadian wilderness.
Time: Late fall, 1867. Place: Dove River, a tiny settlement on the northern shore of Georgian Bay. Precipitating event: Laurent Jammet, a French trapper and voyageur for the Hudson Bay Company, has been brutally murdered _ scalped, in fact _ and his killer is unknown. Collateral event: Francis Ross, a handsome but troubled 17-year-old neighbor of Jammet's, has also disappeared.
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