Mystery Books
-
Love Lies Bleeding (China Bayles Mystery)The newest in the nationally bestselling series--a "fast-paced and absorbing" tale (Midwest Book Review). Ex-lawyer and her
-
Silence of the Grave (Reykjavik Murder Mysteries, No. 2)Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger AwardInspector Erlendur returns in this gripping Icelandic thriller When a skeleton
-
RoomHeld captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy exper
-
The Lost World"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING."--PeopleIt is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park,
-
Indigo Dying (China Bayles Mystery)China Bayles heads to the tiny town of Indigo, Texas, to teach a Colors to Dye For workshop. But she quickly discovers that Indigo
-
The Anastasia Syndrome and Other StoriesIn the short novel The Anastasia Syndrome, prominent historical writer Judith Chase is living in London and preparing for h
-
Rosemary Remembered (China Bayles Mystery)Something about the murder of an accountant just doesn't add up in this China Bayles mystery from New York Times bestsel
- More...
Mystery Movies
-
Sphere (Special Edition)When a spaceship is found 1000 feet below the Pacific Ocean it is carbon dated to be over 400 years old. A crack team of scientist
-
BasicAcademy Award(r) nominees John Travolta (Best Actor in a Leading Role, Pulp Fiction, 1994) and SamuelL. Jackson (Best Actor in a S
-
The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition)Butterfly Effect, The (DVD)Ashton Kutcher stars as a man who has lost track of time. From an early age, crucial
-
PrometheusRidley Scott, director of "Alien" and "Blade Runner," returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundb
-
The Ninth GateJohnny Depp unlocks the gates to hell in Roman Polanski's newest thriller. Depp stars as Dean Corso, an unscrupulous rare-book dea
- More...
Mystery Authors
Book reviews - Ordinary Grace
Ordinary Grace
Author: William Kent Krueger
WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD
A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013
“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.”
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. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder.
Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family—which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister; and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother—he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years.
Told from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.
