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....
Tamarack County
Tamarack County
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.
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Characters
Cork O'ConnorProtagonist
Private investigator, tracing a chain of attacks back to a conviction he helped secure as a deputy.
Stephen O'ConnorSupporting
Cork's son, attacked during the blizzard.
Evelyn CarterSupporting
A retired judge's wife who disappears in the storm.
Rainy BisonetteSupporting
Henry Meloux's great-niece, and Cork's partner.
