August into Winter

**The first novel in nearly a decade from the three-time Governor General's Award ‒winning author of *The Last Crossing* , *August Into Winter* is an epic story of crime and retribution, of war and its long shadow, and of the redemptive possibilities of love.***You carried the past into the future on your back, its knees and arms hugging you tighter with every step.*It is 1939, with the world on the brink of global war, when Constable Hotchkiss confronts the spoiled, narcissistic man-child Ernie Sickert about a rash of disturbing pranks in their small prairie town. Outraged and cornered, Ernie commits an act of unspeakable violence, setting in motion a course of events that will change forever the lives of all in his wake.With Loretta Pipe--the scrappy twelve-year-old he idealizes as the love of his life--in tow, Ernie flees town. In close pursuit is Corporal Cooper, who enlists the aid of two brothers, veterans of World War One: Jack, a...