Sometimes a librarian should do her research before reading a novel. I picked this one up, thinking, "Man, I loved one of his books!" Ummm, this is a novel by a first-time author. Lin's brother Leif wrote Peace Like A River, which I loved.
There are similarities between how the brother write. Both create peaceful settings in Minnesota country. Both create rugged male characters who are tough on the outside and tormented on the inside. Both make shooting someone a central point of the plot. :)
Like Matt Haig's Dead Fathers Club, the author uses Hamlet to create a modern-day version of the story. Jesse is a 17 year old boy hunting with his father. A gun fires, and his father is dead, apparently by suicide. But the dead father's ghost appears and Jesse blames his uncle for killing his own brother. Jesse's mother did used to date her husband's brother, so the suspicion is there. But the family business was in trouble, so maybe Jesse's dad did just want to leave his life. So, did Uncle Clay kill his own brother? Read it and find out!
The tension is high and Enger pulls off a teenage romance with the mystery, also. I absolutely LOVE the cover of this book.
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