This book is what I believe would be called a 'character development' book.  It was well written about a woman who is running away after murdering her husband and her two brothers-in-law are trying to track her down.   The year is 1903 and the setting is Canada. The descriptions are lovely and the characters she meets along her journey are interesting and quirky,  but for me, it lacked a real exciting plot.  

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

A Frosty the Snowman for adults.
I bought this book at  Parnassus Books in Ketchikan, AK while on a family cruise this past spring; Ivey's descriptions of the Alaskan landscape make me want to go back every season to see the awakening and blooming of spring and the stark beauty of winter.
A beautiful, mystical story about love and loss and a reminder that in a world in which we all suffer, we must celebrate and cherish the joy that does come into our life - in whatever form and for however long.

This is a debut novel by an author we met in Salem, Massachusetts. Not a bad little story set in a small town called Starvation Lake in Michigan.   Gus Carpenter returns to his hometown after failing in the big city of Detroit and begins to investigate the murder of his former hockey coach.
  The story starts out slow, a lot of info about playing hockey but picks up in the second half of the book.  Like, does what Gus remembers about his coach the truth,  what are the secrets that the people he knows are keeping and what is the town covering up??