William Kent Krueger
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
Cork O'Conner is the former sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota, but when the town's judge turns up dead, Cork finds himself more willing to investigate the strange events that are happening than the police are, and when he discovers some shocking town secrets, he begins to understand why.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Locked in a tight battle for reelection, President Clay Dixon knows his best chance for victory is the popularity of his wife, Kate. But the disenchanted First Lady is about to desert him. When an orchard accident seriously injures Kate's father, a retired senator and former vice president, she returns to the family farm in Minnesota to be at his side. Assigned to protect her, Secret Service agent Bo Thorsen soon falls under Kate's spell. Bo suspects...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
A domestic-disturbance call on the Ojibwa reservation turns nasty when someone starts taking potshots at Cork. Elsewhere, the body of a Chicago businessman is found on the banks of Mercy Falls. The victim was trying to broker a deal between his casino-management company and the reservation. Could someone on the res have killed him?
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"...The latest in the series finds the sheriff running for his life from professional hit men who have already put a bullet through his leg. Desperate, he finds sanctuary outside a small town called Bodine on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in an old resort owned by his cousin, Jewell DuBois. Though Jewell, a bitter widow whose husband may have been killed by cops, keeps Cork at arm's length, her fourteen-year-old son, Ren, is looking for a friend....
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
x, 512, [19] p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dismissing circumstantial evidence that incriminates a young man in the murder of his girlfriend in Aurora, Minnesota, former sheriff Cork O'Connor confronts local bigotry and bureaucracy in order to find the true killer.
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
xiv, 402 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former sheriff Cork O'Connor is hired to find a friend's daughter, a country-western singer missing in the wilds of Minnesota. O'Connor discovers FBI agents and a gangster from a casino are also looking for the woman, but they won't say why.
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of a powerful businessman dies as a result of her meth addiction, her father, strong-willed and brutal Buck Reinhardt, vows revenge. His target is the Red Boyz, a gang of Ojibwe youths accused of supplying the girl's fatal drug dose. When the head of the Red Boyz and his wife are murdered in a way that suggests execution, the Ojibwe gang mobilizes, and the citizens of Tamarack County brace themselves for war, white against red. Both...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Happy and content in his hometown of Aurora, Minnesota, Cork O'Connor has left his badge behind and is ready for a life of relative peace, setting up shop as a private investigator. But his newfound state of calm is soon interrupted when Henry Meloux, the Ojibwe medicine man and Cork's spiritual adviser, makes a request: Will Cork find the son that Henry fathered long ago? With little to go on, Cork uses his investigative skills to locate Henry Wellington,...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Atomic Energy Commission puts the Vermilion One Mine on its shortlist of potential sites for storage of nuclear waste, a barrage of protest erupts in Tamarack County, Minnesota, and Cork O'Connor is hired to head security. His first day on the job, Cork stumbles across a secret room with the remains of six murder victims inside. Five appear to be nearly half a century old -- connected to what the media had dubbed 'The Vanishings,' a series...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 357 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
During a houseboat vacation on the remote Lake of the Woods, a violent gale sweeps through unexpectedly, stranding Cork O'Connor and his daughter, Jenny, on a devastated island where the wind has ushered in a force far darker and more deadly than any storm. Amid the wreckage, Cork and Jenny discover an old trapper's cabin where they find the body of a teenage girl. She wasn't killed by the storm, however; she'd been bound and tortured before she died....
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the plane carrying Cork O'Connor's wife goes missing in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies, Cork must learn to accept that his wife is gone forever. But then two women show up on Cork's doorstep with evidence that the pilot of the plane was not the man he claimed to be. With this glimmer of hope, Cork sets off to unravel the mystery of this pilot and of what happened to his wife.
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The unsinkable Cork O'Connor is sitting in the shadow of a towering monolith known as Trickster's Point, deep in the Minnesota wilderness. Beside him is the first Native American governor-elect, Jubal Little, who is slowly dying with an arrow through his heart. Although the men have been bow hunting, this is no accident. The arrow in the governor's heart belongs to Cork. When he becomes the primary suspect in the murder, Cork understands full well...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
viii, 309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As a blizzard swells just days before Christmas, the car belonging to the wife of a retired local judge is discovered abandoned on a rural road in Tamarack County. After days of fruitless effort, the search-and-rescue team has little hope that she'll be found alive, if at all. Cork O'Connor, former sheriff and now private investigator, is part of that team. Early on, Cork notices small things about the woman's disappearance that disturb him. But when...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Karl Lindstrom's lumber mill explodes in the early morning hours, killing Ojibwe elder Charlie Warren. The local Native Americans are up in arms over Lindstrom's plan to cut down Our Grandfathers, a grove of old-growth white pines sacred to tribal lore. Outside conservationists have also descended on the town, eager to save the 300-year-old trees. When a person identifying himself as the Eco-Warrior, soldier of the Army of the Earth, claims responsibility...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Cork O'Connor's search for a missing man in the Arizona desert puts him at the center of a violent power struggle along the Mexican border, a struggle that might cost Cork everything and everyone he holds most dear. On the Fourth of July, just as fireworks are about to go off in Aurora, Minnesota, Cork O'Connor and his new bride Rainy Bisonette listen to a desperate voicemail left by Rainy's son, Peter. The message is garbled and full of static, but...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since the violent deaths of his wife, father, and best friend all occurred in previous Novembers, Cork O'Connor has always considered it to be the cruelest of months. Yet his daughter has chosen this dismal time of year in which to marry, and Cork is understandably uneasy. His concern comes to a head when a man camping in Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness goes missing. As the official search ends with no recovery in sight, Cork is...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper that it was the work of a mythical beast, the Windigo, or a vengeful spirit called Michi Peshu. Such stories have been told by the Ojibwe people for generations, but they don't solve the mystery of how the girl and her friend, Mariah Arceneaux, disappeared a year ago. At the request of the Arceneaux...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cork O'Connor and his son Stephen work together to uncover the truth behind the tragic plane crash of a senator on Desolation Mountain and the mysterious disappearances of several first responders"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 385 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Cork O'Connor stumbles upon a body hanging from a tree, it is up to his father, the town sheriff, to find answers. But meanwhile, a determined Cork begins to look for answers on his own.