Back in the saddle as sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork O'Connor is lured to the nearby Ojibwe reservation on what appears to be a routine call -- only to become the target of sniper fire. Soon after, he's called to investigate a mutilated body found perched above the raging waters of Mercy Falls....
Two-time Anthony Award-winning author William Kent Krueger has "moved to the head of the crime fiction class" ("Chicago Sun-Times") with his gripping series featuring Sheriff Cork O'Connor. In "Copper River," Cork is running for his life -- and straight into a murderous conspiracy involving teena...
Two distractions right off the bat: WKK switched to first person POV for Corks voice. It was...off for me. Next distraction was the audiobooks fault, they changed the narrator. The narrator they switched to has done the five PJ Tracy Monkeewrench books, so instead of hearing "Cork's voice", a...
William Kent Krueger joined the ranks of today's best suspense novelists with this thrilling, universally acclaimed debut. Conjuring "a sense of place he's plainly honed firsthand in below-zero prairie" (Kirkus Reviews), Krueger brilliantly evokes northern Minnesota's lake country -- and reveals ...
An explosion has rippped through the local lumber mill, killing a nightwatchman and putting the entire town of Aurora, Minnesota, on edge. The suspects are from the local native tribe, which has been protesting the mill owner's threats to clear-cut their sacred stand of trees.
When the corpse of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Year's Eve, all evidence points to her boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite Solemn's self-incriminating decision to go into hiding, Cork O'Connor, Aurora's for...
I am not one for mysteries, but Krueger writes mysteries with substance. So when I get the hankering for something different, it is to Krueger I go. This did not disappoint. I had to read it faster than I might have if I didn't have four other library books here waiting to be read. You have t...
This book grabbed me from the first sentence. Very exciting to read for the first 1/3 of the book, very suspenseful!...then it just fell flat for me. This is the first I have read from this author and would probably give him another shot based on other reviews of his previous books. With this ...