Dennis Lehane
A pitch-perfect, wonderfully evocative examination of violent loss. In Frank Drum's journey away from the shores of childhood—a journey from which he can never return—we recognize the heartbreaking price of adulthood and it's 'wisdoms.' I loved this book.
PJ Coldren
I've lent my copy so many times I don't know where it is any more and will have to get another one. Phenomenal writing. Incredibly easy to read, which we all know means it was probably not incredibly easy to write, and the story stays long after the book is put down. I was awed by this book.
Washington Post
Krueger’s elegy for innocence is a deeply memorable tale.
Detroit News
...the tone is much like To Kill a Mockingbird, with its combination of dread and nostalgia.
ReviewingtheEvidence.com
My best read so far this year.
Historical Novel Society
I realized within pages this would be one of the best books I’ve read in recent years. The gathering threat and its consummation are satisfying and meaningful. This is an intelligent and compelling story told with great heart.... A perfect book club read, truly a book to love and read more than once. Absolutely recommended.
Beth Hoffman
Besides being a terrific story that examines a powerful range of human experiences and emotions, it was the authentic voice of the teenage narrator, Frank Drum, that kept me reading late into the night. Though the tone is quiet, Krueger artfully layered the story with suspenseful examinations of family life, death, fury, spiritual fiber and redemption.
Denver Post
Not often does a story feel at once fresh and familiar. But Ordinary Grace, a new novel from William Kent Krueger, is both, and it is affecting.
The Missourian
Ordinary Grace is engaging from the first page, a quiet novel that unfurls its sad story slowly, but eloquently, leaving its mark on your heart.
New York Journal of Books
A superb literary novel.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
There’s such a quiet beauty in his prose and such depth to his characters that I was completely captivated.
BookPage
A thoughtful literary mystery that is wholly compelling and will appeal to fans of Dennis Lehane and Tom Franklin. . . Don’t take the title too literally, for Krueger has produced something that is anything but ordinary.
Huffington Post
Once in a blue moon a book drops down on your desk that demands to be read. You pick it up and read the first page, and then the second, and you are hooked. Such a book is Ordinary Grace. . . . This is a book that makes the reader feel better just by having been exposed to the delights of the story. It will stay with you for quite some time and you will always remember it with a smile.
BookReporter.com
One cannot read Ordinary Grace without feeling as if it is destined to be hailed as a classic work of literature. Ordinary Grace is one of those very rare books in which one regrets reaching its end, knowing that the experience of having read it for the first time will never be repeated. Krueger, who is incapable of writing badly, arguably has given us his masterpiece.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Everything about this book, from language to ideas to Aeschylus’s epigram is beautiful and you’ll think about it long after you’re finished reading.
Capital Journal
Sometimes a work of fiction just comes to you, sits in your soul, touches your life experiences and then is hard to remember as fiction. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Kruger is such a novel."
Detroit News
...the tone is much like To Kill a Mockingbird, with its combination of dread and nostalgia.
Washington Post
Krueger’s elegy for innocence is a deeply memorable tale.