A tangled web of deceit and deception is unearthed and brought into the light as the investigation continues. Cork joins forces with his father in order to find the killer. A well-respected member of the Anishinabee community is found hanging from a tree in the back country, and a young Cork O'Connor and his friend were the ones to find the body. In most cases they live beside each other fairly peacefully, but sometimes an event occurs that is a lightning rod that ignited long-buried secrets and animosities. His father, Sheriff Liam O'Connor is the person responsible for maintaining law and order in this vast land that is peopled by both whites and natives alike. The book is set in the summer of 1963, when Cork is 12 years of age. This is a book about father's and sons, life-lessons learned the hard way, and illustrates so clearly the responsibility that we all have to take care of our families. The geographical names are so familiar to me now - Boundary Waters, Iron Lake and the forests and parklands all around the area. I love the native lore, and the people that live in this beautiful area. I love the settings of these books - in and around Aurora, Minnesota. This prequel came out last year and I wanted to read it in order to become more familiar with Cork's earlier life before he becomes Sheriff Cork O'Connor. I love Cork O'Connor and have been reading my way through The Cork O'Connor series.
In this “brilliant achievement, and one every crime reader and writer needs to celebrate” (Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author), beloved novelist William Kent Krueger shows that some mysteries can be solved even as others surpass our understanding. Together, father and son face the ultimate test of choosing between what their heads tell them is true and what their hearts know is right. In the shadow of his father’s official investigation, Cork begins to look for answers on his own.
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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, his family, and himself.Ĭork’s father, Liam O’Connor, is Aurora’s sheriff and it is his job to confirm that the man’s death was the result of suicide, as all the evidence suggests. 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. An instant New York Times bestseller, this prequel to the acclaimed Cork O’Connor series is “a pitch perfect, richly imagined story that is both an edge-of-your-seat thriller and an evocative, emotionally charged coming-of-age tale” ( Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author) about fathers and sons, small-town conflicts, and the events that shape our lives forever.Īurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of Minnesota’s Iron Lake.
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