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....
Heaven's Keep
Heaven's Keep
Synopsis
A charter flight carrying Jo O'Connor and a delegation of tribal leaders disappears in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies. No wreckage is found. Cork O'Connor is left with a grief that has nowhere to go and a house full of children who need him to have answers.
Months later two women arrive with a claim that undoes everything: the pilot was not the man the manifest says he was. Cork goes to Wyoming, where the local police, the Northern Arapaho and men with no visible employer would all prefer he went home.
Heaven's Keep is the ninth Cork O'Connor novel, and the one that permanently changes the shape of the series.
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Genres
Characters
Cork O'ConnorProtagonist
Searching for the truth about the plane crash that took his wife.
Jo O'ConnorSupporting
Cork's wife, aboard the charter flight that vanished over the Wyoming Rockies.
Stephen O'ConnorSupporting
Cork's son.
Henry MelouxSupporting
Ojibwe medicine man and Cork's mentor.
