Tuesday, January 15, 2019

New William Kent Krueger Books

William Kent Krueger and his Cork O'Connor Series are quite popular in our Library. I've added a few titles we didn't have.  The nice things about his books are they can be read in order or individually. The Cork O'Connor Series follows Cork O'Connor, a former Sheriff, who solves mysteries in Northern Minnesota.

I've included a list of his books below the new book descriptions.



The Devils Bed (Stand-alone Novel)

When President Clay Dixon's father-in-law—a former vice president—is injured in a farming accident, First Lady Kate Dixon returns to Minnesota to be at his side. Assigned to protect her, Secret Service agent Bo Thorsen soon falls under Kate's spell. He also suspects the accident is part of a trap set for Kate by David Moses, an escaped mental patient who once loved her. What Bo and Moses don't realize is that they're caught in a web of deadly intrigue spun by a seemingly insignificant bureaucratic department within the federal government. Racing to find answers before an assassin's bullet can kill Kate, Bo soon learns that when you lie down with the devil, there's hell to pay.










Sulfur Springs (#16 in the Cork O'Connor Series)

New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger showcases his talent “creating strong characters, building drama and conflict, braiding in Indian legend and spirituality, and spinning a good yarn” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) in this a vivid and pulse-pounding thriller that follows Cork O’Connor’s search for a missing man amid the fraught tensions at the border between Arizona and Mexico.

On the Fourth of July, just as fireworks are about to go off in Aurora, Minnesota, Cork O’Connor and his new bride Rainy Bisonette receive a desperate phone call from Rainy’s son, Peter. The connection is terrible but before the line goes dead, they hear Peter confess to the murder of someone named Rodriquez.

The following morning, Cork and Rainy fly to southern Arizona, where Peter has been working as a counselor in a well-known drug rehab center. When they arrive, they learn that Peter was fired six months earlier and hasn’t been heard from since. So they head to the little desert town of Sulfur Springs where Peter has been receiving his mail. But no one in Sulfur Springs seems to know him. They do, however, seem to recognize the name Rodriguez. Apparently, the Rodriguez family is one of the cartels controlling everything illegal that crosses the border from Mexico.

As they gather scraps of information about Peter, Cork and Rainy are warned time and again that there is a war going on along the border. “Trust no one in Coronado County,” is the most common piece of advice they receive, and Cork doesn’t have to be told twice. To him, Arizona is alien country. The relentless heat, the absence of water and big trees and shade all feel nightmarish to him, as does his growing sense that Rainy might know more about what’s going on than she’s willing to admit in this fresh, exhilarating, and white-knuckle mystery starring one of the greatest heroes of fiction.






Desolation Mountain (#17 in the Cork O'Connor Series)

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

To Stephen O’Connor, Hamlet’s dour observation is more than just words. All his life, he has had visions of tragedies to come. When he experiences the vision of a great bird shot from the sky, he knows something terrible is about to happen. The crash of a private plane on Desolation Mountain in a remote part of the Iron Lake Reservation, which kills a United States senator and most of her family, confirms Stephen’s worst fears.

Stephen joins his father, Cork O’Connor and a few Ojibwe men from the nearby Iron Lake reservation to sift through the smoldering wreckage when the FBI arrives and quickly assumes control of the situation. What seems like the end of the O’Connors’ involvement is, however, only the beginning of a harrowing journey to understand the truth behind the Senator’s death. As he initiates his own probe, Cork O’Connor stumbles upon a familiar face in Bo Thorson, a private security consultant whose unnamed clients have hired him to look quietly into the cause of the crash. The men agree to join forces in their investigation, but soon Cork begins to wonder if Thorson’s loyalties lie elsewhere.

In that far north Minnesota County, which is overrun with agents of the FBI, NTSB, DoD, and even members of a rightwing militia, all of whom have their own agendas, Cork, Stephen, and Bo attempt to navigate a perilous course. Roadblocked by lies from the highest levels of government, uncertain who to trust, and facing growing threats the deeper they dig for answers, the three men finally understand that to get to the truth, they will have to face the great menace, a beast of true evil lurking in the woods—a beast with a murderous intent of unimaginable scale.



Cork O'Connor series:
  1. IRON LAKE (Atria Books hardcover, 1998; Atria Books trade paperback, 2009)
  2. BOUNDARY WATERS (Atria Books hardcover, 1999; Atria Books trade paperback, 2009)
  3. PURGATORY RIDGE (Atria Books hardcover, 2001; Atria Books trade paperback, 2009)
  4. BLOOD HOLLOW (Atria Books hardcover, 2004; Atria Books trade paperback, 2009)
  5. MERCY FALLS (Atria Books hardcover, 2005; Atria Books trade paperback, 2009)
  6. COPPER RIVER (Atria Books hardcover, 2006; Atria Books trade paperback, 2009)
  7. THUNDER BAY (Atria Books hardcover, 2007; Atria Books trade paperback, 2009)
  8. RED KNIFE (Atria Books hardcover, 2008; Atria Books trade paperback, 2009)
  9. HEAVEN'S KEEP (Atria Books hardcover, 2009; Atria Books trade paperback, 2010)
  10. VERMILION DRIFT (Atria Books hardcover, 2010; Atria Books trade paperback, 2011)
  11. NORTHWEST ANGLE (Atria Books hardcover, 2011; Atria Books trade paperback, 2012)
  12. TRICKSTER'S POINT (Atria Books hardcover, 2012; Atria Books trade paperback, 2013)
  13. TAMARACK COUNTY (Atria Books hardcover, 2013; Atria Books trade paperback, 2014)
  14. WINDIGO ISLAND (Atria Books hardcover, 2014; Atria Books trade paperback, 2015)
  15. MANITOU CANYON (Atria Books hardcover, 2016; Atria Books trade paperback, 2017)
  16. SULFUR SPRINGS (Atria Books hardcover, 2017; Atria Books trade paperback, 2018)
  17. DESOLATION MOUNTAIN (Atria Books hardcover, August 2018)
Stand-alone novels:
THE DEVIL'S BED (Atria Books hardcover, 2003; Pocket Star paperback, 2003)
ORDINARY GRACE (Atria Books hardcover, 2013; Atria Books trade paperback, 2014)

Note: Some book descriptions & pictures from Amazon, Publishers website or our Library MARC Records, others are in my own words


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