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....
Manitou Canyon
Manitou Canyon
Synopsis
In November, with his daughter's wedding days away and winter coming down over the Boundary Waters, Cork O'Connor agrees to guide a search for a missing man. He does not come back.
His family flies in to the lake and finds his campsite, and blood, and no sign of him. What they uncover as they search is not a hunting accident or a lost hiker but a plot with a body count in the hundreds if it is allowed to run.
Manitou Canyon is the fifteenth Cork O'Connor novel, and one of the few in which Cork is the missing person and the O'Connor children have to do the finding.
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Characters
Cork O'ConnorProtagonist
Vanishes in the Boundary Waters while searching for a missing camper.
Stephen O'ConnorSupporting
Cork's son, who joins the search for his father.
Jenny O'ConnorSupporting
Cork's daughter, days from her wedding when he disappears.
Rainy BisonetteSupporting
Cork's partner.
