Helpful Score: 3
Excellent book! I've read all his books and each one is a page-turner. Minnesota author and his books are set in Minnesota. If you are from MN you will recognize many names and places. Also a lot of Native American perspective.
Helpful Score: 2
This was a great book. The ending was a complete surprise.
Helpful Score: 2
Good book in the Cork O'Connor series
Helpful Score: 2
This is my favorite book of the series so far. I thought it was beautifully written, with a good mystery, and just enough suspense to keep me turning the pages. I love his sense of place.
Vivian Q. (bellasgranny) -
Helpful Score: 1
I'm reading this series out of sequence, but it does not detract from my enjoyment of the story and characters. William Kent Krueger knows how to tell a great story.
Good series to follow, good stories, not a lot of foul language or sex, just a good story
Great mystery following Cork again.
Good Reading
In this 3rd novel featuring "Cork" O'Connor, the ex-sheriff and his wife are working on their troubled marriage when there is an explosion at the local timber mill. The local Native Americans, and environmental activists, are enraged over plans to cut down old-growth pines sacred to the tribe. In a parallel story, a half-Indian man is still simmering with anger over the long-ago sinking of an ore ship. He was the only survivor, and his brother died. The two plots will of course converge. Great sense of place in this books, interesting characters, and there's a twist at the end I didn't anticipate. IMO the plot tends to stall in a couple places and I still think it's odd that the local sheriff, who defeated Cork in an election, allows him free access to just about everything. There's a sub-plot that kind of explains it, I guess, and maybe it's a small-town kind of thing too. A new reader could start here without problems, there is enough backstory to catch up on the character relationships.
Cork O'Connor just can't stay away from a murder. In this best book of the series so far, he comes very close to being one of the victims. Great book, great series.
