![]() ![]() Further into the story, Frank's older sister, a talented singer who is headed to Juilliard, is murdered. Murder." The book begins with the death of one of the town's residents, a young schoolmate of Frank, who is killed on the railroad tracks outside of town. As the book's prologue states "It was a summer in which death, in visitation, assumed many forms. ![]() Frank is thirteen years old that summer of 1961, and lives with his family in New Bremen, a fictional town in the Minnesota River Valley. The story is narrated by Frank Drum, forty years after the murder occurs. The book is a story of a murder in a small town, but rather than focusing on "whodunit," Ordinary Grace tells the story of that tragedy's effects on the town and its residents. Like most of the thirteen Cork O'Connor titles, Ordinary Grace is set in Minnesota. William Kent Krueger, author of the award-winning Cork O'Connor mystery series, has written a new novel, which is very different from his mysteries. Ordinary Grace: A Novel by William Kent Krueger Atria Books March 2013 307 pp. Book Review by Ann Jonas, Tradebook Buyer - CSB/SJU Bookstores ![]()
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