Hunger of the Wolf

The Hunger of the Wolf by Stephen Marche
 253  Pages

"The body in the snow belonged to Ben Wylie, the heir to America's second-wealthiest business dynasty, and it is found in a remote patch of northern Canada. Far away, in post-crash New York, Jamie Cabot, the son of the Wylie family's housekeepers, must figure out how and why Ben died. He knows the answer lies in the tortured history of the Wylie family, who over three generations built up their massive holdings into several billion dollars' worth of real estate, oil, and information systems despite a terrible family secret they must keep from the world."

 It is as if Marche couldn't decide what type of book to write.  Historical fiction? Supernatural? Morality Tale?  This indecision results in a book that fails to deliver a coherent message or to entertain.