![]() ![]() Krueger's choice of protagonist, though, is perfect. I tend to avoid novels where children are the main characters, as I seldom find their thoughts, conversations or actions credible over the length of the book in my view, they generally come across as too worldly or precocious. ![]() Along with reporting on the fatalities and the investigations that surround them, Frank vividly describes what it was like to be a kid in middle America during that era, the colorful characters that populated the small town, and the lasting impact the deaths had on his family and others. The eldest son of the town's Methodist minister, Frank was 13 at the time five people who lived in the area died under suspicious circumstances. The tragedies that unfold during the summer of 1961 are described forty years after by the now 53-year-old Frank Drum. William Kent Krueger's latest novel is an atmospheric murder mystery set in a fictional small town in Minnesota. ![]() An irresistible narrator and a strong sense of time and place distinguish this murder mystery set in the Midwest of the 1960s ![]()
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