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....
Windigo Island
Windigo Island
Synopsis
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.
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Characters
Cork O'ConnorProtagonist
Private investigator hired to find a missing Ojibwe teenager.
Mariah ArceneauxSupporting
The missing fifteen-year-old at the centre of the search.
Rainy BisonetteSupporting
Cork's partner, Henry Meloux's great-niece.
Henry MelouxSupporting
Ojibwe medicine man and Cork's mentor.
