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....
Mercy Falls
Mercy Falls
Synopsis
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.
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Characters
Cork O'ConnorProtagonist
Sheriff of Tamarack County, target of a sniper and lead investigator on the Mercy Falls killing.
Jo O'ConnorSupporting
Cork's wife, whose past connection to the victim's family surfaces during the case.
Eddie JacobySupporting
The murdered Chicago businessman negotiating a casino contract.
