On Memorial Day, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota, gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast.
Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the results of the autopsy, vicious rumors begin to circulate that the killer must be Noah Bluestone, a Native American WWII veteran who recently has returned to Jewel with a Japanese wife. As suspicions and accusations mount and the town teeters on the edge of more violence, Dern struggles not only to find the truth of Quinn’s murder but also to put to rest the demons from his own past.
Come on Wednesday, Sept. 6 at noon in the Cumberland Room at the Library as the Cumberland County Playhouse performs some of Elvis Presley’s songs from their present production of
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NEW ORLEANS (press release) – The Garden District Book Shop invites you to meet New York Times bestselling author William Kent Kreuger on Sept. 27. Krueger