Past Imperfect
- ISBN-10
- 1615950982
- ISBN-13
- 9781615950980
- Series
- Past Imperfect
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-11-30
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks, Inc.
- Author
- Kathleen Hills
Description
A grizzled Lake Superior fisherman with a massive allergy to bees dies very early one morning alone on his boat. Was he stung to death? John McIntire, retired from a career in military intelligence and striving to regain a place in his boyhood home after 30 years away, is serving as township constable. He questions the easy verdict. The town of St. Adele has little experience with violent death—or murder. Nor does McIntire, despite fighting in two world wars. Worse, all the suspects are friends and neighbors, men and women he grew up with "talking Swede." The dead man, last of a Norwegian family who came to raise apples in the struggling rural township sandwiched between the Huron Mountains of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the southern shore of Lake Superior, had no real enemies despite his gruff temper. And he had little to leave aside from a heavily mortgaged boat. So, who wanted to kill him? Saddened by violence striking Utopia, worried his British bride might cut and run, his task complicated by taciturn witnesses and six party telephone lines, the naturally humorous McIntire, while bringing a murderer to justice, struggles to evolve a new perspective on a rural community he has idealized for three decades. Rich in magnificent landscape, vivid characters stepping from a past both thoroughly Midwestern and multi-ethnic, and a secret-laden story, filled with laughter and warm insights, Past Imperfect offers a new voice of great promise reminiscent of the debuts of Steve Hamilton, A Cold Day in Paradise, and William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2021
- 240 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press
Similar books
-
Past Imperfect: A Novel
By Julian FellowesIt was a time when everything seemed to be changing—and it was, but not always quite as expected. Past Imperfect is Julian Fellowes at his best--a novel of secrets, status, and a world in upheaval.
-
Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956
By Tony Judt-James Miller , The Washington Post " Past Imperfect is a forthright and uncommonly damning study of those intellectually volatile years [ 1944-1956 ) . Mr. Judt ... does more than simply describe the ideological acrobatics of his ...
-
Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies
By Mark C. CarnesEssays that consider how classic movies have reflected history include the writings of such noted historians as Paul Fussell, Antonia Fraser, and Gore Vidal
-
Past Imperfect: Poems
By Suzanne BuffamThere is the heartbreak tied to human love and there is heartbreak that points to notions of the divine. The poems in Suzanne Buffam's debut collection, Past Imperfect, enter the...
-
Past Imperfect, Future UNcertain: The United Nations at Fifty
By Ramesh ThakurIn this book, foreign ministers, generals, ambassadors, and scholars provide sober assessments of how the United Nations can meet the challenge of a balance between the desirable and the possible.
-
Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956
By Tony JudtTony Judt provides a sharp and intellectual ideological description of mid-twentieth century French intellectuals “Past Imperfect is a forthright and uncommonly damning study of those intellectually volatile years [1944-1956].
-
Past Imperfect
By Alison G. BaileyFrom the moment they meet, Brad and Mabry- two people trying to overcome mistakes of their past- know they have met the one person who will complete them. Can their new love survive their pasts?
-
Past Imperfect: Essays on History, Libraries, and the Humanities
By Lawrence W. TownerThe essays and talks gathered in Past Imperfect cover a broad range of topics of continuing relevance to the humanities and to scholarship in general.
-
Past Imperfect: An Autobiography
By Joan CollinsPast Imperfect: An Autobiography
-
Past Imperfect
By John MatthewsA car accident in California and a deadly assault in Provence leaves two boys 30 years apart battling for their lives.