In the summer of 1961, a small American town—New Bremen—was swept by a wave of deaths. One of the victims was eighteen-year-old beauty Ariel; her body was found in the river. Ariel’s younger siblings—the girl’s teenage brothers, Frank and Jake—don’t believe in an accident, let alone that their sister killed herself. They try to find the murderer and understand the motives behind the crime.
“Simple Mercy” is a psychological novel by William Kent Krueger, written in the best traditions of the genre of “southern fiction.”