The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

A murder is committed in a small town in the Canadian wilderness of the 1800's and at least three different people come under suspicion. One of them, an eyewitness, takes off after the murderer without telling anyone what he is up to. He treks through the cold winter forest and two different groups take off after him. The trail leads to a Norwegian religious community and then on to an outpost of the Hudson Bay Company. It is sometimes hard to keep all the characters straight in this novel, but it is well written and, on the whole, a good read.