Thomas James Maltman

Set on the Minnesota prairie in the late 1980s during a drought that's pushing family farms to the brink, Little Wolves features the intertwining stories of a father searching for answers after his son commits a heinous murder, and a pastor's wife, a washed-out scholar of early Anglo-Saxon literature who has returned to the town for mysterious reasons of her own. This penetrating look at small-town America weaves together elements of folklore and...

"Recovering from a terrible auto accident just before the turn of the millennium, college dropout and hobbyist computer-game programmer Lucien Swenson becomes the caretaker of a house in northern Minnesota. Lucien sets out to find a missing woman he had been having an affair with, who vanished along with money stolen from the bank where they had worked together. His search will take him to Rose of Sharon, a white supremacist church deep in the wilderness,...