Iron Lake

Aurora, Minnesota: population 3,752, deep in the north woods, and buried in a December blizzard. Corcoran 'Cork' O'Connor used to be the sheriff. Now he runs a burger stand, his marriage is failing, and the town has moved on without him.

Then a prominent local judge is found dead — apparently by his own hand — and on the same night an Ojibwe boy who delivered his newspapers disappears. Cork, part Irish and part Anishinaabe and belonging fully to neither community, is the only person willing to treat the two events as one story. What he uncovers runs into casino money, county corruption and old land grievances, while an aging medicine man warns him that a Windigo is walking.

Iron Lake is the first Cork O'Connor novel and the beginning of one of American crime fiction's longest-running regional series.