Windigo Island

The body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes ashore on Windigo Island, in Lake Superior off the Bad Bluff reservation. A year earlier she and her friend Mariah Arceneaux left home together. Only one of them has come back.

Mariah's family hires Cork O'Connor to find her. The trail leads to Duluth and into the trafficking of Native women and girls — a trade that runs on the ones nobody is looking for, and that treats fifteen-year-olds as inventory.

Windigo Island is the fourteenth Cork O'Connor novel. Krueger names the Windigo of Ojibwe story and then shows what it actually looks like: not a monster in the woods, but men with a business model.