As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Canada’s Dove River in 1867 a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year-old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man’s cabin head north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence people are drawn to the township — but do they want to solve the crime or exploit it? One by one the assembled searchers set out to pursue the tracks across a desolate landscape home only to wild animals madmen and fugitives. Stef Penney weaves adventure suspense revelation and humour into a gripping historical tale an exhilarating thriller and a keen murder mystery.
