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....
Copper River
Copper River
Synopsis
Wounded and pursued by the men who tried to kill him, Cork O'Connor goes to ground at his cousin's resort in Bodine, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He intends to heal and stay invisible.
Instead a girl's body is found on the bank of the Copper River, and a local boy tells him another teenager is missing. Cork, in no condition to fight anyone, starts asking questions — and finds a predatory operation running through the runaways and throwaway kids of the north woods, while the assassins hunting him close in.
Copper River is the sixth Cork O'Connor novel and the direct continuation of Mercy Falls.
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Characters
Cork O'ConnorProtagonist
Wounded and in hiding, investigating the deaths of local teenagers while assassins hunt him.
Jewell DuBoisSupporting
Cork's cousin by marriage, who shelters him at her resort.
Ren DuBoisSupporting
Jewell's teenage son, drawn into Cork's investigation.
