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....
Vermilion Drift
Vermilion Drift
Synopsis
Cork O'Connor takes a security consulting job at the Vermilion One Mine, an old iron works in northern Minnesota now under consideration as a nuclear waste repository. Deep underground, he finds a sealed chamber, and inside it six bodies.
Five have been there for decades — the victims of a 1964 disappearance the county has always called the Vanishings. The sixth is recent, and was killed with a Colt that belonged to Cork's father, the sheriff of Tamarack County at the time the first five went missing.
Vermilion Drift is the tenth Cork O'Connor novel. It is the book in which Cork investigates his own family, and the county's foundational silence about what happened underground.
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Characters
Cork O'ConnorProtagonist
Private investigator, forced to reopen a cold case that implicates his late father.
Liam O'ConnorSupporting
Cork's father, sheriff of Tamarack County during the 1964 Vanishings.
Henry MelouxSupporting
Ojibwe medicine man and Cork's mentor.
