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. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township - journalists, Hudson's Bay Company men, trappers, traders - but do they want to solve the crime or exploit it?One-by-one the assembled searchers set out from Dove River, pursuing the tracks across a desolate landscape home only to wild animals, madmen and fugitives, variously seeking a murderer, a son, two sisters missing for 17 years, a Native American culture, and a fortune in stolen furs before the snows settle and cover the tracks of the past for good.In an astonishingly assured debut, Stef Penney deftly waves adventure, suspense, revelation and humour into a panoramic historical romance, an exhilarating thriller, a keen murder mystery and ultimately, with the sheer scope and quality of her storytelling, one of the books of the year.
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Stef Penney skúma drsnú krásu a temné tajomstvá ľudskej duše prostredníctvom svojho sugestívneho rozprávania. Jej literárny štýl, ovplyvnený predchádzajúcou kariérou vo filmovom priemysle, sa vyznačuje prenikavými opismi a silným zmyslom pre atmosféru. Prostredníctvom svojich príbehov sa autorka často ponára do psychologických hĺbok postáv, pričom skúma ich motivácie a vnútorné boje. Penneyová píše s hlbokým porozumením pre ľudskú povahu, čím čitateľom ponúka pútavý a podnetný literárny zážitok.







A dazzling, panoramic epic of love and survival set in late 19th century Paris in the vein of Hilary Mantel and Susanna Clarke from an award-winning author.
The Invisible Ones
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Set in the 1980s in rural southern England, this is a darkly compelling mystery about a gypsy family dogged by misfortune.
Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve, and fell in love with the land and people of the far north. In 1889, the whaler's daughter from Dundee sets out to become a scientist and explorer. She struggles to be taken seriously
Author of the Costa-prizewinning, world-wide bestseller The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney, returns to her snow-covered heartland in this tense mystery set in a small Scandinavian town. Nordland. A region in the Norwegian Arctic; a remote valley that stretches from the sea up to the mountains and glaciers. It is May in what was once a prosperous mining community. The snows are nearly gone and it's a time of spring and school-leavers' celebrations - until Daniel, a popular teenage boy, goes missing. Conflicting stories circulate among his friends, of parties and wild behaviour. As the search for Daniel widens, the police open a disused mine in the mountains. They find human remains, but this body has been there for decades, its identity a mystery. Everyone in this tight knit, isolated community is touched by these events: misanthropic Svea, whose long life in the area stretches back to the heyday of the mines, and beyond. She has cut all ties with her family, except for her granddaughter, Elin, an outsider like her grandmother. Elin and her friend Benny, both impacted by Daniel while he was alive, become entangled in the hunt for answers, while Svea has deep, dark secrets of her own.
Ein fesselnder Roman über Privatdetektiv Ray Lovell, der dem Rätsel um das seit über sechs Jahren verschwundene Roma-Mädchen Rose nachgeht. Während er in ein Netz aus Geheimnissen und Lügen eintaucht, wird ihm die Wahrheit fast zum Verhängnis. Nur der 14-jährige JJ scheint Antworten zu suchen.