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....
Apostle's Cove
Apostle's Cove
Synopsis
Cork O'Connor is old now. The call comes from his son Stephen, a law student working with an innocence project: the Ojibwe man Cork helped convict of a brutal murder decades ago, Axel Boshey, did not do it.
Cork goes back into the case — his case — and finds that the county has not forgotten it either, and that there are people in Tamarack County still powerful enough, and frightened enough, to kill to keep the original verdict standing. Meanwhile Cork's young grandson has his own account of what is happening, and it involves the Windigo.
Apostle's Cove is the twenty-first Cork O'Connor novel, published in 2025. It asks the question the series has circled for twenty books: what a man owes for the harm he did while believing he was doing right.
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Cork O'ConnorProtagonist
Aging former sheriff, reinvestigating a conviction he himself secured.
Stephen O'ConnorSupporting
Cork's son, a law student working for an innocence project.
Axel BosheySupporting
The Ojibwe man imprisoned for murder, possibly wrongfully.
