Sacrifice — L.L. Enger

In the late 1960s, two young men left a small Michigan town. One was Gunsten Pedersen, who went on to a career with the Detroit Tigers. The other was Harry Summers, a gifted infielder who disappeared from Copper Strike on a rainy June night. Now an excavation crew has unearthed Harry's bones, and with them, grim evidence of murder-a hammer imbedded in Harry's skull. Gun Pedersen, hometown hero turned recluse, has returned for Harry's funeral. But when evidence of the decades-old crime points to Gun's father, Gun is caught in a tragedy from Copper Strike's past. With his own wedding only days away, Gun is finding some hard and wrenching truths: about the things fathers do for sons, about the things you can't ever leave behind, and about a killer who has yet one more life to take. Fans of Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Craig Johnson's Longmire, and William Kent Krueger's Cork O'Connor enjoy the Enger brothers' Gun Pedersen.***PRAISE FOR THE GUN PEDERSEN SERIES*** COMEBACK: A well-written, fast-reading thriller. . . . It's got everything.-Minneapolis St. Paul MagazineComeback is so good, you want to sit down and read it all at once. It's got love and shame and money and the Minnesota woods and lakes, and dark mystery, and a reluctant hero, and it's written with humor and passion.-Garrison KeillorSWING:Solidly entertaining.-ALA BooklistIn Swing, the plot twists as unpredictably as a hangman's rope. Swing has muscle (and heart, too).-Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine[A] sure hit.-R.D. Zimmerman, author of Deadfall in BerlinSTRIKE:Compelling.-Publishers WeeklySACRIFICE:Sacrifice is the best novel I've read this year. Not just the best mystery, but the best novel, period.-Jeremiah Healy, author of the John Francis Cuddy seriesSharp and engaging!-Minneapolis Star TribuneTHE SINNERS' LEAGUE:[A] revelation . . .-Booklist