But the question remains: do these men want to solve the crime or exploit it? In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the crime and to the township - Andrew Knox, Dove River's elder statesman Thomas Sturrock, a wily American itinerant trader Donald Moody, the clumsy young Company representative William Parker, a half-breed Native American and trapper who was briefly detained for Jammett's murder before becoming Mrs. Within hours she will regret that knock with a mother's love - for soon she makes another discovery: her seventeen-year-old son Francis has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect. Ross's 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 man's 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.Ī local woman, Mrs. 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. 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.

The tenderness of wolves by stef penney