The Current by Tim Johnston

Two young women travel from their southern college back to Minnesota in the dead of winter when they have a tragic accident and their car is nudged into a frigid river leaving only one girl alive. The survivor makes her way only to find herself dealing with the death of her ex-Sheriff dad and her drowned friend. The town is mourning with her but this latest incident brings up a lot of hate and suspicion over an unsolved murder of a young girl years before. This is a slow burn - a frigid conservative Minnesotan town that is suffering from reopened wounds and more questions. There is violence but also great compassion and understanding. Just like the title the swift current carries you along, leaving you no time to take in the scenery because you are too busy looking for something in the river that will drag you under.