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Cork O'Connor Mystery Series #21
The New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor Mystery series—a "master class in suspense and atmospheric storytelling" (The Real Book Spy)—continues with Cork O'Connor revisiting a case from his past and confronting mysterious deaths in the present.
A few nights before Halloween, as Cork O'Connor gloomily ruminates on his upcoming birthday, he receives a call from his son, Stephen, who is working for a nonprofit dedicated to securing freedom for unjustly incarcerated inmates. Stephen tells his father that decades ago, as the newly elected sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork was responsible for sending an Ojibwe man named Axel Boshey to prison for a brutal murder that Stephen is certain he did not commit.
Cork feels compelled to reinvestigate the crime, but that is easier said than done. Not only is it a closed case but Axel Boshey is, inexplicably, refusing to help. The deeper Cork digs, the clearer it becomes that there are those in Tamarack County who are willing once again to commit murder to keep him from finding the truth.
At the same time, Cork's seven-year-old grandson has his own theory about the investigation: the Windigo, that mythic cannibal ogre, has come to Tamarack County…and it won't leave until it has sated its hunger for human blood.
What are you reading this week? And what did you think of last week’s books? (10/09/2025)
I wanted some comfort reading as I had a death in my family. So I turned to William Kent Krueger's new book in the Cork Cochran stories (there are 20 in the series! ). This book does not disappoint- and if you haven't read the other books, this one goes back in time so you learn a lot about his p...
-Jorene_J
What are you reading this week? And what did you think of last week’s books? (09-25-2025)
...ubling up: All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert (heart wrenching, brutally unabashed as only Gilbert can pull off, raw truth at every step); Apostle's Cove by William Kent Krueger (a long, tedious, 10-hour listening journey to arrive at an abrupt dénouement in the last 20 minutes); reread Book 2 in Philip Pullman's Secret Commo...
-Sunny
"Riveting and reflective... . Krueger has created a rich community full of memorable characters, suspense, action and danger." —BookPage (starred review)
"Krueger's muscular prose keeps the action chugging along, but not at the expense of detailed character work: the author's portraits of Axel, Cork, and their associates across more than a quarter-century lend the narrative a stirring humanity. Add in a vividly rendered setting and an elegant dual-timeline plot, and this proves that Krueger is still at the top of his game." —Publishers Weekly
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William Kent Krueger is the award-winning author of a dozen Cork O'Connor novels, including Northwest Angle and Trickster's Point, as well as the novel Ordinary Grace. He lives in the Twin Cities with his family.
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