Mercy Falls

Sheriff Cork O'Connor is ambushed by a sniper while answering a routine call on the Ojibwe reservation. Days later the mutilated body of Eddie Jacoby — a Chicago consultant brokering an unpopular casino management deal — is found near Mercy Falls.

The two attacks look unrelated. They are not. As Cork works the murder, he learns that the Jacoby family's connection to Tamarack County is older and more personal than anyone told him, and that it runs through his wife Jo.

Mercy Falls is the fifth Cork O'Connor novel. It is the point at which the series turns inward, and the danger stops being something Cork investigates and becomes something inside his own house. It ends on a cliffhanger resolved in Copper River.