Northwest Angle by William Kent Krueger

 

Yeah, it's another of these novels. They work--they're stunningly effective amalgamations of crime novels, thrillers, and family dramas; and while they happen in a sequence, and there's some additional something to reading them in that order, it's not necessary for any given single novel. Krueger knows the real-world version of the setting and its people, and the versions of those in his novels reflect that. I might not be super-happy with the implications--stronger in some novels than in others--that the magic/religion of the local tribes works and is real, but what usually seems to matter more is that the people in the novels believe it works.