In the summer of 1961, the small American town of New Bremen was overwhelmed by a wave of deaths. One of the dead was eighteen-year-old beauty Ariel, whose body was found in the river. The girl's younger brothers, teenagers Frank and Jake, do not believe in the accident, much less that their sister committed suicide. They are trying to find the killer and understand the motives for his crime. “Simple Grace” is a psychological novel by William Kent Krueger, written in the best traditions of the “southern prose” genre.