Stefen’s Bookclub – August

The Wolf Road
by Beth Lewis

This is a debut novel, and a bit genre blender. It’s a dynamic thriller that begins with Elka who lives on a remote mountain with Trapper, the solitary hunter who took her in when she was seven years old. They live a simple, self sufficient existence and he has taught her everything she needs to survive. When, against Trapper’s advice Elka travels to the nearby town she sees wanted posters everywhere proclaiming Trapper as a wanted murderer. Now the Magistrate hunting Trapper is on her trail too and she’s discovered some very disturbing things about her own past. Just like the world, which was knocked back centuries by the event known as the Damn Stupid, Elka’s life is in ruins. She has no idea who to believe and who to trust, only that the answers may be locked in her own lost childhood memories.