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Cork O'Connor mysteries

Author:
Krueger, William Kent
 
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Book cover for "Iron Lake".
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Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Part Irish, part Native American, Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor puts aside his grudge against the small Minnesota town that rejected him as a sheriff to investigate a sinister conspiracy responsible for the murder of the local judge.
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Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
When a famous young country singer vanishes in the Quetico-Superior Wilderness on the border of northern Minnesota and Canada, her father joins Cork O'Connor, a pair of FBI agents, an ex-convict, and a young boy on an expedition to find her.
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Series Volume:
3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The local Anishinaabe Indian tribe is furious to discover that Karl Lindstrom's lumber mill is after a grove of trees sacred to tribal lore. So when the mill gets bombed, killing a man, the tribe is blamed. But ex-sheriff Cork O'Connor has a different theory.
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Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Former sheriff Cork O'Connor’s uphill battle to clear local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon of murder is intensified following Solemn’s self-incriminating decision to go into hiding. When Solemn reappears, claiming to have seen a vision of Jesus Christ in Blood Hollow, the mystery becomes thornier than Cork could ever have anticipated.
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Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Responding to a domestic disturbance call on the Ojibwe reservation, Tamarack County sheriff Cork O'Connor barely escapes a sniper attack and stumbles into the investigation of a Chicago businessman's murder.
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Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Cork O’Connor, is running for his life from professional hit men, finds sanctuary in an old resort owned by his cousin on the Upper Penninsula of Michigan. Her fourteen-year-old son, Ren, is looking for a friend, but being a father figure will prove more difficult than Cork could possibly imagine.
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Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
In William Kent Krueger's "finest work" (Michael Connelly), detective Cork O'Connor unravels a mystery for his old friend Henry Meloux, only to get caught in the blistering crossfire of jealousy and revenge.
The promise, as I remember it, happened this way.

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...
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Series Volume:
8.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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O'Connor is caught in the middle of a gang dispute between the Aurora Anglos and the Ojibwe Reservation Red Boyz, a situation that turns deadly when the Red Boyz leader and his wife are found murdered.
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Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Months after the tragedy, two women show up on Cork's doorstep with evidence that the pilot of Jo's plane was not the man he claimed to be. It may not be definitive proof, but it's a ray of light in the darkness. Agreeing to investigate, Cork travels to Wyoming, where he battles the interferences of local law enforcement who may be on the take, the open hostility of the Northern Arapaho, who have much to lose if the truth is known, and the continuing...
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Series Volume:
10.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Assigned to protect security at a mine where protestors are trying to prevent the storage of nuclear waste, Cork O'Connor discovers the bodies of five long-missing people and a recently murdered sixth victim who was killed with Cork's own gun.
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Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Discovering a murdered teen while stranded by a gale on the remote Lake of the Woods, detective Cork O'Connor and his daughter, Jenny, also discover a mysterious baby boy whose life is threatened by powerful adversaries.
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Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Cork O'Connor 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 to the real killer's identity.
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Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Faced with a series of dark occurrences that are linked to a twenty-year-old murder, private investigator Cork O'Connor must stop a vengeful force before his family and friends pay the ultimate price.
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Series Volume:
14.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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...
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Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The lives of hundreds of innocent people are at stake when Cork vanishes in Minnesota's wilderness just days before his daughter's November wedding. The violent deaths of Cork's wife, father, and best friend all occurred in previous Novembers.
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Series Volume:
16.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"In William Kent Krueger's latest pulse-pounding thriller, 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...
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Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
"New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger delivers yet another "punch-to-the-gut blend of detective story and investigative fiction" (Booklist, starred review) as 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. This is a heart-pounding and devastating mystery the scope and consequences...
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Series Volume:
18.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Aurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of Minnesota's Iron Lake. In the summer of 1963, it is the whole world to twelve-year-old Cork O'Connor, its rhythms as familiar as his own heartbeat. But when Cork stumbles upon the body of a man he revered hanging from a tree in an abandoned logging camp, it is the first in a series of events that will cause him to question everything he took for granted about his hometown,...
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Series Volume:
19.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking a woman named Dolores Morriseau, a stranger who had come to the healer for shelter and the gift of his wisdom. Meloux guides this stranger and his great niece, Cork O’Connor’s wife, to safety deep into...
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Series Volume:
20.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"The disappearance of a local politician's teenaged daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O'Connor's grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman--but nobody seems that interested. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police. As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this mysterious and grim discovery, they uncover a connection...