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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
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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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 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 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 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?
6) Copper River
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
William Kent Krueger has won two Anthony Awards for his gripping Cork O'Connor mysteries. Set in remote areas of the northwest, each book in the series launches the Minnesota lawman into challenges that push his endurance to new limits. Part Irish, part Native-American, Sheriff Cork O'Connor serves the remote territory of Tamarack County, Minnesota. But big trouble is brewing: a powerful man believes O'Connor killed his son. Now there's a price on...
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....
8) Blood Hollow
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Multiple Anthony Award winner William Kent Krueger returns to Minnesota's North Woods country for another chilling entry in his Cork O'Connor series. In this thrilling mystery, former sheriff Cork O'Connor confronts the paranormal while investigating baffling murders. After 17-year-old Charlotte Kane-the beautiful, brilliant, and brooding daughter of a rich widower-disappears on a drunken New Years' Eve snowmobile ride, a raging blizzard soon snuffs...
9) Mercy Falls
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author William Kent Krueger thrills millions with this Anthony Award-winning entry in his compelling series that already includes Anthony Award winners Iron Lake and Blood Hollow. Still troubled by an ambush that leaves his deputy lingering near death, Sheriff Cork O'Conner must investigate the mutilation murder of a Chicago businessman. Soon Cork finds himself distracted by the lovely female shadowing him and the handsome man stalking...
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 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 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 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.
14) Boundary Waters
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Drawing strong comparisons to the work of James Lee Burke and Tony Hillerman, William Kent Krueger's Cork O'Connor mysteries never fail to please fans. Here Cork joins the search for a country-western singer who has disappeared in the wilderness along the American/Canadian border. "Krueger's writing, strong and bold yet with the mature mark of restraint, pulls this exciting search-and-rescue mission through with a hard yank."-Publishers Weekly
15) Iron Lake
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Anthony Award-winning author William Kent Krueger crafts this riveting tale about a small Minnesota town's ex-sheriff who is having trouble retiring his badge. Cork O'Connor loses his job after being blamed for a tragedy on the local Anishinaabe Indian reservation. But he must set aside his personal demons when a young boy goes missing on the same day a judge commits suicide-and no one but O'Connor suspects foul play.
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
With his family caught in the crosshairs of a group of brutal killers, detective Cork O'Connor must solve the murder of a young girl in the latest installment of William Kent Krueger's unforgettable New York Times bestselling series.
During a houseboat vacation on the remote Lake of the Woods, a violent gale sweeps through unexpectedly, stranding Cork and his daughter, Jenny, on a devastated island where the wind has ushered in a...
During a houseboat vacation on the remote Lake of the Woods, a violent gale sweeps through unexpectedly, stranding Cork and his daughter, Jenny, on a devastated island where the wind has ushered in a...
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 12
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
New York Times best-selling author William Kent Krueger has won numerous accolades for his books, including the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. InTrickster's Point, the 12th suspenseful installment in Krueger's Cork O' Connor series, Cork is framed for the murder of Minnesota's first Native American governor-elect, Jubal Little. As Cork fights to clear his name and uncover the truth, he discovers that events from his own past may hold the key...
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...
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