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....
Boundary Waters
Boundary Waters
Synopsis
Shiloh, a country-western star at the height of her fame, walked into the Quetico-Superior wilderness to be alone and has not come out. Two million acres of forest, lake and rock straddling the Canadian border have swallowed her, and winter is closing.
Cork O'Connor is hired to lead a search party in: an ex-convict, two FBI agents, and a boy. What none of them says aloud is that other people are looking for Shiloh too, and those people are not there to rescue her.
Boundary Waters is the second Cork O'Connor novel — a wilderness chase in which the country itself is as dangerous as the men moving through it, and the party's own composition becomes the sharpest threat of all.
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Characters
Cork O'ConnorProtagonist
Former sheriff, hired to guide a search party into the Boundary Waters.
ShilohSupporting
A famous country singer who has disappeared into the wilderness.
Jo O'ConnorSupporting
Cork's wife, dealing with escalating danger back in Aurora.
Henry MelouxSupporting
Ojibwe medicine man and Cork's mentor.
