Characters in Purgatory Ridge

Cork O'Connor

Former sheriff, investigating a mill bombing that divides his town and his own loyalties.

Also in Indianischer Winter, Iron Lake, Boundary Waters, Mercy Falls, Copper River, Thunder Bay, Red Knife, Heaven's Keep, Vermilion Drift, Northwest angle

Jo O'Connor

Cork's wife, the lawyer representing the Anishinaabe against the mill owner.

Also in Iron Lake, Boundary Waters, Mercy Falls, Heaven's Keep

Karl Lindstrom

The industrialist whose mill is bombed and whose logging plans threaten sacred pine.

Henry Meloux

Ojibwe medicine man and Cork's mentor.

Also in Iron Lake, Boundary Waters, Thunder Bay, Heaven's Keep, Vermilion Drift, Trickster's Point, Windigo Island, Desolation Mountain, Fox Creek