William Kent Krueger
William Kent Krueger
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William Kent Krueger is an American crime novelist, born in Wyoming in 1950 and long settled in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His Cork O'Connor series follows a former sheriff of mixed Ojibwe and Irish descent through the small towns and reservation country of northern Minnesota.
It began with Iron Lake (1998), which won the Anthony and Barry awards for best first novel, and has run to twenty books, most recently Spirit Crossing. Blood Hollow and Mercy Falls each took the Anthony Award for Best Novel.
He also writes standalone fiction, including The Devil's Bed, Ordinary Grace — which won the Edgar Award for Best Novel — and This Tender Land, which spent nearly six months on the New York Times bestseller list.
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The Cork O'Connor series should be read in publication order to follow the character's development and ongoing storylines. While each book can often be enjoyed as a standalone mystery, the overarching narrative benefits from sequential reading.
William Kent Krueger has received multiple awards for his work, including the Edgar Award for Best Novel for Ordinary Grace and several Anthony Awards and Minnesota Book Awards for his Cork O'Connor series.
As of my last update, Ordinary Grace has been optioned for a limited television series, and there have been discussions regarding adaptations for the Cork O'Connor series.
New readers often enjoy starting with Ordinary Grace for a powerful standalone experience, or with Iron Lake, the first book in the Cork O'Connor series, to begin a long-running mystery series.