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When a personal vendetta leads to a savage Pr*son escape, special agent Sam Rivers must outwit a deadly killer before his family becomes the next target.
Sam Rivers expects a quiet few days at a law enforcement conference, held at Peterson's Resort, deep in the forests of northeastern Minnesota. Joined by his pregnant wife and teenage daughter, the special agent for the US Fish and Wildlife Service looks forward to a working vacation. But the wilderness offers no refuge when danger comes looking for him.
After violent offender Angus Moon escapes from a Canadian Pr*son--with help from the mysterious Wilhelmina Gunn--the cunning duo set their sights on revenge against Sam, whom they blame for ruining their lives. The severed head of a grizzly bear appears on a remote bridge known as Grizzly Narrows, luring Sam into a deadly game with high stakes: the life of his abducted wife.
As Angus stalks the woods with calculated brutality, Sam must rely on his instincts, his daughter's resourcefulness, and his wolfdog companion, Gray, to track a predator who knows the terrain--and Sam's weaknesses--all too well.
In this sixth installment of the Sam Rivers Mystery series, award-winning author Cary J. Griffith delivers a pulse-pounding wilderness thriller packed with action, psychological tension, and emotional depth. Grizzly Narrows is a gripping tale of survival and vengeance where one wrong step could be Sam's last.
Award-winning author Cary J. Griffith grew up among the woods, fields, and emerald waters of eastern Iowa. His childhood fostered a lifelong love of wild places.
He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in library science from the University of Minnesota..
Griffith’s books explore the natural world. In nonfiction, he covers the borderlands between civilization and wild places. In fiction, he focuses on the ways some people use flora and fauna to commit crimes, while others with more reverence and understanding of the natural world leverage their knowledge to bring criminals to justice.
He is the recipient of a Midwest Book Award, and a Minnesota Book Award.
He lives with his family in a suburb of Minnesota’s Twin Cities.
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In Day Brings Back the Night, three episodes in a family’s life unfold across decades, each shaped by memory, longing, and the mysteries of love. In 1989, Helen stands at the threshold of a new beginning yet cannot shake the trauma of an oppressively painful past. Years later, Tom and Amanda journey north into Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, where silence, grief, and tenderness open old emotional terrain—and where the wilderness begins to reveal what the family cannot. By 2023, the family returns to the wilderness, drawn together by what has endured and what remains unresolved. Told in three intimate movements, this lyrical and psychologically rich novel explores the afterlife of pain, the bonds between parents and children, and the difficult grace of forgiveness without forgetting.
Brian Duren was born and raised in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. He holds a Doctorate in French Literature from the University of Paris, as well as a B.A. in English and a Ph.D. in French from the University of Minnesota. After a career as a professor, teaching French literature and European cinema, and as a university administrator, he launched a new career as a novelist. He writes innovative psychological literary fiction with an introspective quality about nomadic characters who travel through time and space, always returning to what haunts them. Whiteout, praised by the St. Paul Pioneer Pressas a “stunning debut novel, worthy of national recognition,” won the Independent Publisher Gold Medal for Midwestern Fiction. Nancy Robinson, the award-winning surrealist painter, lauded Brian’s second novel, Ivory Black, for “putting an imaginary paintbrush into the hands of the reader and leading the way through an experience so real, it seems like more than a dream.” Recognizing Brian’s Proustian roots in his third novel, Peter Geye commented about The Gravity of Love, “In lyrical, looping, loving prose, Brian Duren has worked toward Proust, that grand master of remembrance. This book is hypnotic and stylish and unforgettable.” And Junot Diaz lauded the book as “a magnificent haunting duet of grief, absence, and the unshakable bonds of family . . . a profoundly moving, profoundly human novel…” Day Brings Back the Night is Brian’s fourth novel.
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