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The River We Remember

by William Kent Krueger

Edgar Award (Best Novel) · 2024 · Shortlist
Atria Booksmystery-crimeISBN 9781982179052

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Edgar Award (Best Novel)2024Shortlist

About This Book

In a small Minnesota town in 1958, the murder of a prominent landowner forces the community to confront buried trauma from World War II. Finalist for the 2024 Edgar Award.

About the Author

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 →

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