Winter Song: A Novel

For fans of Elizabeth Strout and Kent Haruf: a novel that follows the intertwined lives of a small-town Midwestern police chief and a young man recently released from prison, each in search of justice

It's 1986, deep winter, in the hinterland of Minnesota: remote Middle America, with demolition derbies and downtown diners, a place so frozen and secluded the world beyond its borders barely registers.

Here, Gordon Trent, a police chief facing mandatory retirement, squares off with Byron Lugo, j...