Boundary Waters - William Kent Krueger

This has to  be one of my favorite mystery thrillers because it was set in one of my favorite places.  This is a well paced thriller with interesting characters and a nice sense of wilderness.  I could debate things like porcupine grass on the trail and a few details, but that is not what this is about.  Just as the Indian reservation is fictitious so is the BWCA that is in the book and yet the book captures the spirit of  both.

He does a good job bringing in the Ojibwe culture as well as the terror of having murders and violence in a place of solitude and renewal.  

This is about a young native woman who is a successful singer and star and the people who were associated with her mother during her mother's rise to prominence.  There is a nice mix of country western singer, gangster and public defender - all the father of the missing woman and some of the most cold blooded killers you will find in literature.

The campfires and Ojibwe tales blend with the desperation to save or to kill the young woman and the book holds together for all 400 pages.  

It is hard to tell about a book like this without giving too much away - so here is the summary - if you like mysteries, American Indians, and wilderness - you will like this.