A review by jenpaddack
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

4.0

Dark, intense, well-written historical murder mystery. The story begins with the death of a French-Canadian trapper in a small frontier town in the 1860s and the search for his murderer. For me though, this story line takes a backseat to the other interconnected stories that subsequently unfold because of the murder. Most of the characters involved in the hunt for this murderer seem to really be searching for something else-- be it justice, love, answers to another mystery or a piece of bone or otherwise--and the original plot is just the catapult for the author to bring in these other plots.

The only issues I had with the book was the overabundance of characters and story lines which at different times in the book detracted from the overall entertainment of the story. A very captivating story though and worth the read.