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Tamarack County

Published
2013
Language
English

Synopsis

Days before Christmas, a blizzard closes over Tamarack County and Evelyn Carter, the wife of a retired judge, disappears. On its own it is a tragedy. But a neighbour's dog has been killed with deliberate cruelty, and Cork O'Connor's son Stephen is attacked on a lonely road, and Cork does not believe in that many coincidences.

What connects them is a murder conviction from more than twenty years ago — one Cork helped secure as a young deputy, and which may have put the wrong man in prison.

Tamarack County is the thirteenth Cork O'Connor novel: a snowbound mystery about the long half-life of a wrongful conviction, and the people who paid for it.

How it reads

Prose complexity 4/10
Content warnings (4)
ViolenceDeath Of An AnimalAnimal CrueltyTrauma