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....
Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay
Synopsis
Henry Meloux, the Ojibwe healer who has guided Cork O'Connor since boyhood, finally asks him for something: find the son Henry fathered decades ago and has never met. Then someone tries to kill Meloux, and the errand becomes an investigation.
The trail leads to Thunder Bay, Ontario, and to Henry Wellington — a reclusive industrialist who does not want to be found and appears to want his father dead. To understand why, Cork has to go back to the 1920s: to Henry's journey west, the woman he loved, and a story of treachery, greed and murder that has been waiting eighty years to be settled.
Thunder Bay is the seventh Cork O'Connor novel, and the one that gives its most beloved secondary character his own history.
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Characters
Cork O'ConnorProtagonist
Newly retired and working as a private investigator, searching for Henry Meloux's lost son.
Henry MelouxProtagonist
The Ojibwe medicine man whose long-buried past drives the novel.
Henry WellingtonSupporting
A reclusive Thunder Bay industrialist, and Meloux's son.
