William Kent Krueger, Author Atria Books $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-671-04753-5
Krueger's page-turner revisits Cork O'Connor, the part-Irish, part-Anishinaabe/Ojibwe ex-sheriff of Aurora, Minn., a tiny lumber town on the edge of the Superior National Forest, whose exploits were depicted in Boundary Waters. This narrative opens...
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William Kent Krueger. Atria, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4767-4929-7
This lively but heavy-handed adventure from Krueger (Ordinary Grace) follows four orphans as they search for safety in Depression-era Minnesota. Storytelling scamp Odysseus “Odie” O’Banion and his more rule-abiding brother Albert are shipped off to...
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William Kent Krueger. Atria, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4746-3
A fatal plane crash drives Edgar-winner Krueger’s haunting, supernaturally tinged 17th mystery to feature Aurora, Minn., former sheriff Cork O’Connor (after 2017’s Sulfur Springs). Cork has been worried about his grown son, Stephen, who’s been...
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William Kent Krueger. Atria, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4734-0
Former sheriff Cork O’Connor, Edgar-winner Krueger’s tragedy-plagued hero, faces further heartache in his moving and suspenseful 16th outing (after 2016’s Manitou Canyon). Cork, who lost his father and his first wife to violence, is in bed with his...
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William Kent Krueger. Atria, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4767-4926-6
In Edgar-winner Krueger’s uneven 15th Cork O’Connor thriller (after 2014’s Windigo Island), Lindsay Harris and her brother, Trevor, hire the ex-sheriff turned PI to find their architect grandfather, John Harris, who recently vanished from Minnesota’s
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William Kent Krueger. Atria, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4767-4923-5
Edgar-winner Krueger highlights the vulnerability of Native American youth in his excellent 14th Cork O’Connor novel (after 2013’s Tamarack County). PI Cork, a former Minnesota sheriff, reluctantly investigates the disappearance of 14-year-old...
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William Kent Krueger. Atria, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4575-0
Minnesota’s haunting Northwoods provide the backdrop for bestseller Krueger’s 13th Cork O’Connor novel (after 2012’s Trickster’s Point), a winter’s tale that will both break and warm the reader’s heart. Marsha Dross, the Tamarack County sheriff who...
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William Kent Krueger. Atria, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4582-8
Best known for the Cork O’Connor mystery series, Krueger (Trickster’s Point) has produced an elegiac, evocative, stand-alone novel. The summer of 1961 finds thirteen-year-old Frank Drum living in small-town New Bremen, Minn. He and his younger...
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William Kent Krueger. Atria, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4567-5
In the prologue of Anthony Award–winner Krueger’s fine 12th Cork O’Connor novel (after 2011’s Northwest Angle), politician Jubal Little, who most likely would’ve won election as Minnesota’s first Native American governor in a few days, takes three...
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William Kent Krueger. Atria, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5395-6
In Krueger's superb 11th novel featuring Cork O'Conner (after Vermilion Drift), the PI and his grown daughter, Jenny, get stranded by a gale on an island in Minnesota's Northwest Angle, an area of the state cut off from the U.S. by 60 miles of...
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William Kent Krueger, Author Atria Books $24 (344p) ISBN 978-0-7434-4588-7
In this solid, action-packed procedural, an assassin lies in wait for Tamarack County, Minn., sheriff Corcoran ""Cork"" O'Connor, and even darker threats loom for him and his family. Cork answers a routine domestic violence call on the Iron Lake...
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William Kent Krueger, Author . Atria $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7434-4584-9
Readers of Krueger's Cork O'Connor mystery series (Iron Lake; Boundary Waters; etc.) will have to postpone the pleasures of the much-anticipated fourth volume, but the wait will be well spent with this fast-paced stand-alone political...
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William Kent Krueger, Author Atria Books $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-671-01698-2
Krueger follows up his sure-handed debut novel, Iron Lake (1998), with an equally effective second thriller featuring former Chicago cop, now former local sheriff Cork O'Connor and his adventures in the warm-spirited little town of Aurora, Minn.,...
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William Kent Krueger, Author Atria Books $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-671-01696-8
Short-story specialist Krueger brings a fresh take on some familiar elements and a strong sense of atmosphere to his first mystery. Chicago cop Cork O'Connor and his wife, Jo, a lawyer, moved back to his northern Minnesota hometown of Aurora to...
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William Kent Krueger, Atria, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5384-0
At the start of Krueger's superlative 10th novel featuring Tamarack County, Minn., PI Cork O'Connor (after Heaven's Keep), mining heir Max Cavanagh hires Cork to trace his missing sister, Lauren, founder of an artists' retreat—and to try to identify
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William Kent Krueger, Author . Atria $24 (310p) ISBN 978-1-4165-5674-9
Racial tensions fuel Krueger's outstanding ninth Cork O'Connor mystery, which delivers everything its predecessors like Thunder Bay
have promised—and more. Threats from all sides assail former sheriff and part-time PI Cork O'Con
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William Kent Krueger, Author . Atria $24 (280p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7841-6
The deftly plotted seventh Cork O'Connor novel represents a return to top form for Anthony-winner Krueger after 2006's disappointing Copper River
. Henry Meloux asks Cork, who's now working as a part-time PI in his hometown of Aurora,
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William Kent Krueger, Author . Atria $24 (309p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7840-9
On the run from anonymous contract killers, ex-sheriff Cork O'Connor goes to ground in a remote corner of Michigan's Upper Peninsula in Krueger's subdued sixth thriller. In the 10 days since the end of Mercy Falls
(2005), Cork has...
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William Kent Krueger, Author . Atria $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7434-4586-3
In his fourth Cork O'Connor mystery (after 2001's Purgatory Ridge
), Krueger tells a chilling story with a warm heart. O'Connor, the prickly ex-sheriff of the small town of Aurora, Minn., finds himself in conflict with the new,...
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William Kent Krueger, Author, Jess Lourey, Author, Ellen Hart, Author . Nodin $16.95 (184p) ISBN 978-1-932472-47-9
The Minnesota Crime Wave’s entertaining second volume of short stories from Minnesota writers (after 2005’s The Silence of the Loons
) introduces some promising talent to a wider audience. Taking a somewhat darker tack than the previous...
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William Kent Krueger, Author, Buck Schirner, Read by Brilliance Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-4175-8
Buck Schirner, an actor with a deep, full-bodied voice, narrates Krueger's ninth novel about Minnesota private detective Cork O'Connor with a blunt, no-frills delivery. His voice is a perfect match for a cleanly written, robust adventure featuring...
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William Kent Krueger. Atria, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-1-9821-2868-5
At the start of bestseller Krueger’s suspenseful 18th mystery, a prequel, featuring former sheriff turned PI Cork O’Connor (after 2018’s Desolation Mountain), 12-year-old Cork, who’s one-quarter Ojibwe, makes a horrifying discovery while hiking one...
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William Kent Krueger. Atria, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-1-9821-2871-5
In Edgar winner Krueger’s outstanding 19th mystery featuring PI Cork O’Connor of Minnesota’s Tamarack County (after 2021’s Lightning Strike), Cork is tending the grill at his burger joint when he’s approached by a stranger who introduces himself as...
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William Kent Krueger. Atria, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-982179-21-2
Bestseller Krueger (the Cork O’Connor series) delivers a patient, character-driven standalone mystery set in the tight-knit community of Jewel, Minn. On Memorial Day 1958, county sheriff Brody Dern arrives at the banks of the Alabaster River to...
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William Kent Krueger. Atria, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-9821-7924-3
In Krueger’s chilling latest case for half-Irish, half-Ojibwe PI Cork O’Connor (after Fox Creek), the former Minnesota sheriff gets involved in a murder investigation after his grandson discovers a shallow grave while picking blueberries. At first,...
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