![]() ![]() Within hours she will regret that knock with a mothers love - for soon she makes another discovery: her seventeen-year-old son Francis has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect. Rosss knock on the door of the largest house in Caulfield that launches the investigation. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees the tracks leading from the dead mans cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. The same accident afforded him the little parcel of land in Dove River, land that the locals called unlucky due to the untimely death of the previous owner. Laurent Jammett had been a voyageur for the Hudson Bay Company before an accident lamed him four years earlier. ![]() Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, a tiny isolated settlement in the Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. ![]() Book Synopsis A brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, The Tenderness of Wolves was long-listed for the Orange Prize in fiction and won the Costa Award (formerly the Whitbread) Book of the Year. She will do anything to see him home safe, even at the peril of her own life. While vigilantes and rescue searchers head out to look for the fugitive, all the mother of the boy wants is her son back. About the Book In this brutal, epic debut novel, a man is found murdered and a 17-year-old boy is on the run. ![]()
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