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| Original Title: | Iron Lake |
| ISBN: | 0671016970 (ISBN13: 9780671016975) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Cork O'Connor #1 |
| Characters: | Cork O'Connor |
| Literary Awards: | Barry Award for Best First Novel (1999), Anthony Award for Best First Novel (1999), Dilys Award Nominee (1999), Minnesota Book Award for Mystery (1999) |
William Kent Krueger
Paperback | Pages: 464 pages Rating: 3.93 | 16876 Users | 1691 Reviews
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| Title | : | Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor #1) |
| Author | : | William Kent Krueger |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 464 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 1999 by Pocket Star (first published August 1998) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Crime. Audiobook. Suspense |
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William Kent Krueger joined the ranks of today's best suspense novelists with this thrilling, universally acclaimed debut. Conjuring "a sense of place he's plainly honed firsthand in below-zero prairie" (Kirkus Reviews), Krueger brilliantly evokes northern Minnesota's lake country -- and reveals the dark side of its snow-covered landscape. Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor is the former sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota. Embittered by his "former" status, and the marital meltdown that has separated him from his children, Cork gets by on heavy doses of caffeine, nicotine, and guilt. Once a cop on Chicago's South Side, there's not much that can shock him. But when the town's judge is brutally murdered, and a young Eagle Scout is reported missing, Cork takes on a mind-jolting case of conspiracy, corruption, and scandal. As a lakeside blizzard buries Aurora, Cork must dig out the truth among town officials who seem dead-set on stopping his investigation in its tracks. But even Cork freezes up when faced with the harshest enemy of all: a small-town secret that hits painfully close to home.Rating Out Of Books Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor #1)
Ratings: 3.93 From 16876 Users | 1691 ReviewsCritique Out Of Books Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor #1)
William Kent Krueger's Cork O'OConnor series comprise a series of stories set in Aurora Minnesota, an area of the country of which I'm blatantly ignorant. Frankly, in reading the reviews of this setting I managed to barely stifle a yawn. Small town mysteries set in a frozen wasteland? With boring backgrounds that involve Indian supernatural folklore - I don't stomach mysteries that resort to such subterfuge, avoid beyond this world explanations when the genre is detective/mystery, decryI was immediately captured by the quality of the prose here. There are so many wonderful passages throughout the book. The characters in the book are interesting and fully alive, as is our damaged Hero and his damaged marriage. This is not cliché, though. The Greek tragedy of detectives in literature is that the pursuit of the truth and justice usually wrecks the lives around them, far more than if they'd just left things alone. You see this in most good detective-noir books these days. You
There is great atmosphere in this book - ice, snow, the winter closing in and the killings in Aurora piling up. The author has a lovely way of introducing his characters and giving them their home in the story - little details about them stick in the mind - which is unusual given there are plenty of characters in this book and it would be easy for them to get lost - but they don't. The story builds slowly and the mystery mounts up. There is really nothing to fault. I particularly enjoyed our
Read it when it came out. Liked it a great deal. Good character development. Story did unravel a little slowly. Ordinary Grace by this author is in my favorites and I highly recommend Ordinary Grace.David Putnam author of The Bruno Johnson series.
A very interesting introduction to a new to me author and series. I really enjoyed the setting with the cold, the snow, snowmobiles, skis and driving on the frozen lake. An alien way of life to me as a resident of a very temperate part of Australia!The story was excellent and the body count was huge. Actually the author maybe overdid that part of it but once I suspended belief I found it all very entertaining. I liked Cork O'Connor straight away and was rather disappointed by the ending when he
What a great find this book was! I'd never heard of the series or the author but when one of my book groups chose this series as a group read this year I decided to give it a try. The story introduces our main protagonist, Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor during a not so great time in his life. Half-Irish and half American Indian, Cork is the former Sheriff of a small town in northern Minnesota but both his professional and personal lives have hit the skids in the year, give or take a few months,
William Kent Krueger's Cork O'OConnor series comprise a series of stories set in Aurora Minnesota, an area of the country of which I'm blatantly ignorant. Frankly, in reading the reviews of this setting I managed to barely stifle a yawn. Small town mysteries set in a frozen wasteland? With boring backgrounds that involve Indian supernatural folklore - I don't stomach mysteries that resort to such subterfuge, avoid beyond this world explanations when the genre is detective/mystery, decry
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