Spirit Crossing: A Novel (20) (Cork O'Connor Mystery Series)
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
William Kent Krueger offers “one of his most puzzling mysteries to date” (Publishers Weekly) as a disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twentieth book in the New York Times bestselling series.
The disappearance of a local politician’s teenage daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O’Connor’s grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman—but nobody seems that interested. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police.
As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this mysterious and grim discovery, they uncover a connection to the missing teenager. And soon, it’s clear that Cork’s grandson is in danger of being the killer’s next victim in this white-knuckled mystery from “a master storyteller at the top of his game” (Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
William Kent Krueger offers “one of his most puzzling mysteries to date” (Publishers Weekly) as a disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twentieth book in the New York Times bestselling series.
The disappearance of a local politician’s teenage daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O’Connor’s grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman—but nobody seems that interested. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police.
As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this mysterious and grim discovery, they uncover a connection to the missing teenager. And soon, it’s clear that Cork’s grandson is in danger of being the killer’s next victim in this white-knuckled mystery from “a master storyteller at the top of his game” (Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
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Cork’s grandson, Waaboo, stumbles upon a shallow grave while picking blueberries with his father and grandpa. Initially, it was thought that the remains may be those of Olivia Hamilton, the daughter of a state senator who went missing a few weeks ago. Olivia, who comes from a wealthy family who made their money long ago during the early days of mining by shipping ore from the Iron Range across Lake Superior, is rather privileged. Oliva has been in trouble that her Father has aways been able to get her out of, but now, she was has to spend the summer as a counselor at a youth camp in Aurora. The hope was that she’d learn some manners, but perhaps more importantly, her seclusion would give her father, who desperately needed his little girl to stay out of the headlines, some political cover. Instead, the exact opposite happened.
After growing bored at the camp, Olivia snuck out one night with a guy named Harvey, and they ended up at Howling Wolf, a rough spot full of drunk men with questionable morals. That was the last time anyone saw Olivia, who was reported missing the next day. With her face plastered all over the news, a manhunt was quickly underway, with everyone from the Tamarack County Sheriff’s personnel to the state patrol, Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and even the FBI pitching in to find Olivia, the hope was that she’d soon be found unharmed.
But while the whole state searched for Oliva Hamilton, nobody seemed all that concerned with the growing number of missing Indigenous women. And when it turns out that the remains Cork’s grandson stumbled upon are not, in fact, Olivia, law enforcement agencies show little to no interest in identifying the young woman. Cork has always been one to fight for the powerless. Cork gets to work and quickly realizes that the body they found was most likely Crystal Two Knives, a local Ojibwe woman who disappeared almost six months prior. Joining forces with the recently formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police, Cork vows to find the truth about whatever happened to Crystal. But when there’s a break in the missing person’s case of Olivia Hamilton, Cork starts asking questions that set off a nail-biting chain of events, pulling the half-Irish, half-Ojibwe Private Investigator into one of his most haunting investigations yet.
I highly recommend this book and series to all. With all of William Kent Krueger's books, I found this book to be wonderfully written, well thought out and moving. I was fully invested in the mystery, worried about several of the characters, rooting for them, and being moved by them.
Thank you to @netgalley and @atriabooks for the advanced copy for my honest review as well as @williamkentkrueger for a great story.
After growing bored at the camp, Olivia snuck out one night with a guy named Harvey, and they ended up at Howling Wolf, a rough spot full of drunk men with questionable morals. That was the last time anyone saw Olivia, who was reported missing the next day. With her face plastered all over the news, a manhunt was quickly underway, with everyone from the Tamarack County Sheriff’s personnel to the state patrol, Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and even the FBI pitching in to find Olivia, the hope was that she’d soon be found unharmed.
But while the whole state searched for Oliva Hamilton, nobody seemed all that concerned with the growing number of missing Indigenous women. And when it turns out that the remains Cork’s grandson stumbled upon are not, in fact, Olivia, law enforcement agencies show little to no interest in identifying the young woman. Cork has always been one to fight for the powerless. Cork gets to work and quickly realizes that the body they found was most likely Crystal Two Knives, a local Ojibwe woman who disappeared almost six months prior. Joining forces with the recently formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police, Cork vows to find the truth about whatever happened to Crystal. But when there’s a break in the missing person’s case of Olivia Hamilton, Cork starts asking questions that set off a nail-biting chain of events, pulling the half-Irish, half-Ojibwe Private Investigator into one of his most haunting investigations yet.
I highly recommend this book and series to all. With all of William Kent Krueger's books, I found this book to be wonderfully written, well thought out and moving. I was fully invested in the mystery, worried about several of the characters, rooting for them, and being moved by them.
Thank you to @netgalley and @atriabooks for the advanced copy for my honest review as well as @williamkentkrueger for a great story.
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