![]() ![]() Suspicion falls on the boy, who was known to frequent Jammet’s cabin. Ross is particularly concerned about Jammet’s murder because 17-year-old Francis, an Irish orphan she and her husband took in when he was five, has not come home from a fishing trip. The leaders of the community and the all-important Hudson Bay Company men gather to make sense of the killing, which revives sore memories of teenage sisters Amy and Eve Seton, who set out on a picnic 15 years before and never returned. Ross discovers the body of French trapper Laurent Jammet, scalped and with his throat cut. In the town of Dove River on the north shore of Georgian Bay, a middle-aged farmer’s wife we know only as Mrs. British filmmaker Penney sets her intriguing, well-wrought novel in a 19th-century Canadian farming community up-ended by the murder of a lone fur trapper. ![]()
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