<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER<BR> WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL<BR> WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD<BR> A <i>SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL </i>BEST BOOK OF 2013</b><BR><BR><b>From <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961.</b><BR><BR><I>“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” </I><BR><BR>New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms.