Ordinary Grace

Anthony Award for Best Novel · 2014 · WinnerEdgar Award (Best Novel) · 2014 · Winner

Atria BooksMarch 26, 2013mystery-crimeISBN 9781451645484

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Anthony Award for Best Novel	2014	Winner	“William Kent Krueger's standalone novel won the Anthony for its nostalgic beauty, moral depth, and the extraordinary emotional weight it gave to a summer of boyhood grief and revelation in 1961 Minnesota.”
Edgar Award (Best Novel)	2014	Winner

About This Book

In the summer of 1961 in a small Minnesota town, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum witnesses a series of tragic deaths. A coming-of-age mystery suffused with loss and grace, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel.

About the Author

William Kent KruegerUS

William Kent Krueger is an American crime fiction author known for the Cork O'Connor mystery series set in the Minnesota Northwoods and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. He won the Anthony Award for Best Novel for Ordinary Grace (2014), a standalone novel set in 1961 Minnesota that became his most celebrated work. Born in Cascade Locks, Oregon in 1950, Krueger studied philosophy at Stanford University. Read more →