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....
Sulfur Springs
Sulfur Springs
Synopsis
Cork O'Connor and his new wife Rainy Bisonette get a call from her estranged son Peter: he has killed a man named Rodriguez, and then the line goes dead.
They drive south to Sulfur Springs, a desert town on the Arizona–Mexico border, and find that Peter lost his counselling job months ago and no one will admit to knowing where he is. The Rodriguez family runs everything that crosses the border here, and every person Cork asks — the sheriff, the ranchers, the volunteers leaving water in the desert — is lying to him about something.
Sulfur Springs is the sixteenth Cork O'Connor novel, and the one that takes Cork furthest from home: out of the northern woods and into a landscape where the moral lines he trusts do not hold.
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Cork O'ConnorProtagonist
Searching the Arizona borderlands for his wife's missing son.
Rainy BisonetteProtagonist
Cork's wife, whose son Peter has vanished after confessing to a killing.
Peter BisonetteSupporting
Rainy's son, a former addiction counsellor now missing in cartel country.
