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....
Fox Creek
Fox Creek
Synopsis
Henry Meloux, more than a century old, has seen his own death. So when a woman named Dolores Morriseau walks into Crow Point looking for the old healer's help, he does not turn her away — he takes her and Rainy, Cork's wife, into the Boundary Waters, where the country can hide them.
It cannot hide them from what is coming. Professional killers are on the water behind them, and back in Aurora, Cork O'Connor is working against the clock to find out who the hunters are, who sent them, and what Dolores is carrying that is worth this much blood.
Fox Creek is the nineteenth Cork O'Connor novel: a pursuit through the north woods in which Cork's most dangerous adversary may be his own doubt that he is still the man who can stop it.
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Characters
Cork O'ConnorProtagonist
Racing to identify the mercenaries hunting his wife and Henry Meloux.
Henry MelouxProtagonist
The ancient Ojibwe healer, who has foreseen his own death and leads the flight into the wilderness.
Rainy BisonetteProtagonist
Cork's wife and Meloux's great-niece, hunted through the Boundary Waters.
Dolores MorriseauSupporting
The stranger whose arrival brings the killers.
