Books by William Kent Krueger
The River We Remember
by William Kent Krueger
☆ Shortlisted for the 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Awards
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger is a rather beautiful and somewhat sad book set in 1958, in a fictional town (Jewel) in a fictional county (Black Earth) in Minnesota. The story opens on Memorial Day with one of the town's leading men found in the Alabaster River, half-eaten by catfish after being killed by a shotgun. The investigation is led by the local sheriff, Brody Dern, but this is about the dynamics in a small town, so a variety of other characters feature as the plot unfolds.
Interviews where books by William Kent Krueger were recommended
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Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense
Saul Perlmutter, Robert MacCoun and John Campbell -
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The River We Remember
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The Mountain in the Sea
by Ray Nayler -
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
by Annie Jacobsen -
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Patriot: A Memoir
by Alexei Navalny, translated by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel -
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World Atlas of Wine
by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson
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