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....
Trickster's Point
Trickster's Point
Synopsis
Jubal Little is hours from becoming governor of Minnesota. Instead he is dying at the base of Trickster's Point, a monolith in the north country, with an arrow through his heart — and Cork O'Connor, who sat with him for the three hours it took him to die, made that arrow.
Cork is the obvious suspect and does himself no favours. To clear his name he has to go back through forty years of a friendship that was never as simple as it looked, and admit what he has always known: that Jubal Little was entirely capable of murder.
Trickster's Point is the twelfth Cork O'Connor novel — a book about a friendship that shaped a man and about how much of it was ever real.
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Cork O'ConnorProtagonist
Prime suspect in the death of his oldest friend, killed with Cork's own arrow.
Jubal LittleSupporting
Cork's lifelong friend and a gubernatorial candidate, murdered at Trickster's Point.
Winona CraneSupporting
A woman bound up in the long history between Cork and Jubal.
Henry MelouxSupporting
Ojibwe medicine man and Cork's mentor.
