New Releases by William Kent Krueger

La escuela Lincoln (a orillas del río Gilead en Minnesota) es, en el verano de 1932, un lugar hostil donde cientos de niños nativos americanos, arrancados de sus familias, son enviados a recibir educación. Entre ellos se encuentra Odie O'Banion, un ingenioso niño huérfano cuyas hazañas provocan la ira del director. Odie y su hermano Albert (los únicos niños blancos de la escuela) cometen un crimen terrible y se ven obligados a huir, llevando con ellos a su mejor amigo, Mose, un niño mudo de la tribu sioux, y a Emmy, una pequeña niña que se ha quedado sola. Juntos escapan en una canoa, navegando por el río Mississippi en busca de un hogar. Los cuatro huérfanos cruzan tierras desconocidas durante un verano inolvidable, encontrando a su paso a personajes a la deriva como ellos: desde agricultores en apuros y curanderos ambulantes, hasta familias desplazadas y almas perdidas. Con la fuerza de un clásico moderno, Río llévame a casa es una epopeya vibrante y conmovedora que toca las fibras más profundas del alma, donde viven los sueños y la auténtica libertad.

愛倫坡獎得主 威廉．肯特．庫格 紐約時報暢銷佳作！ ──落魄警長 寇克．歐康納系列── 女孩在如禁地般的水域失去蹤跡， 只留下幾封有關母親冤案的沉痛書信。 寇克受絕望父親所託前往救援， 卻不曾想，真凶就在隊伍之中…… 【寇克．歐康納系列】得獎經歷 《鐵湖疑案》閣樓─麥克奈特小說獎（Loft-McKnight Fiction Award） 美國安東尼獎（Anthony Award） 貝瑞獎之一鳴驚人獎（Barry Award for Best First Novel） 美國作家之友獎（Friends of American Writers Prize） 明尼蘇達圖書獎（Minnesota Book Award） 明尼蘇達東北圖書獎（Northeastern Minnesota Book Award） 迪利斯獎（Dilys Award）入圍 邊界水域，以其廣闊的森林和險峻的激流聞名，宛如與世隔絕的禁地，同時也隱藏著無數的危險與恐懼。 在被沉痛的過去折磨數十年之後，希蘿決定遠離喧囂，期望能在這片自然的懷抱中找到失落已久的自我。卻不幸在這片充滿未知的土地失去了與外界的聯繫，最後留下的只有關於令她痛苦多年、母親遭人謀殺的書信文件。 沉寂已久的案件再次透過信件浮出水面，引起了某些人的關注，這些潛伏在暗處的力量開始蠢蠢欲動，準備再度出手封殺這些可能揭露他們罪行的證據。 希蘿的失蹤可能並非偶然，這背後的陰謀正逐漸顯現。 曾任警長，卻因過去的一次致命錯誤被罷免，最終人生幾近摧毀的寇克，受託前往邊境水域尋找希蘿。 寇克不僅受限於邊界水域的複雜地形和多變天氣，更感受到自己正在被某種無形的力量監視，那股黑暗勢力開始露出獠牙，阻止他揭露真相的每一步行動。 在邊界水域的深處，寇克是否能順利揭開隱藏多年的驚天陰謀？ 如同這塊土地上的狂風，死亡與暴力正在尾隨…… § 讓威廉．肯特．庫格榮獲多項大獎的【寇克．歐康納系列】深受評論家喜愛！ 「知名的寇克．歐康納系列小說裡人物角色豐富、故事情節複雜，並有深刻的道德與情感核心。假如你不還認識寇克．歐康納，現在就快一探究竟。」──書單（Booklist） 「威廉．肯特．庫格是犯罪小說中最新鮮也最真實的聲音之一。」──愛倫坡獎得主暨作家S.J.羅贊（S.J.Rozan） 「威廉．肯特．庫格卓越的系列小說，就如同甜玉米和明尼蘇達州博覽會，是一年一度的夏季亮點。」──明尼蘇達月刊（Minnesota Monthly） §《水域迷蹤》好評如潮 「繼一鳴驚人的處女作之後，庫格推出同樣精彩萬分的第二部驚悚小說，講述寇克．歐康納在明尼蘇達州人情溫暖的奧羅拉小鎮再次經歷冒險……庫格的寫作風格大膽強勢，又有成熟的自制力，讓寇克這次的搜救任務更為刺激。」──出版人週刊（Publishers Weekly） 「在到處是野生灰狼、水間陸路、惡劣天氣與可怕歹徒的邊境水域裡，寇克依然是個充滿活力又令人喜愛的英雄人物。」──柯克斯書評（Kirkus Reviews） 「庫格憑著他的歐康納系列迅速取得明星作家的地位。」──中西書評（Midwest Book Review） 「引人入勝……喜愛北森林的讀者一定會欣賞庫格筆下生動的意象，其內容融合了印第安文化與傳說、偏僻之境與冒險行動、不適應新環境的外來者，以及熱情豪邁但讓人耳目一新的當地原住民。──明尼蘇達州明尼亞波利斯版City Pages

„Un roman picaresc plasat în timpul Marii Crize. Amintind de Fructele mâniei și de Huckleberry Finn, Acest tărâm al blândeții este o călătorie atât înăuntrul ființei, cât și în afara ei, o călătorie la capătul căreia descoperi sensul vieții și libertatea." - Minneapolis Star Tribune 1932, Minnesota — Școala Lincoln e un loc ostil unde sute de copii amerindieni, orfani sau separați abuziv de familiile lor, sunt trimiși să fie educați. Printre ei se află Odie O’Banion, un băiat orfan, cu mintea ageră, ale cărui isprăvi atrag mânia directoarei. În urma unui incident, Odie și fratele său, Albert, singurii copii albi din școală, sunt siliți să fugă, luându-i cu ei și pe Mose, un băiat mut din tribul Sioux, precum și pe Emmy, o fetiță rămasă fără mamă. Împreună, pornesc cu canoea pe râul Gilead, în căutarea unui cămin, întâlnind în drumul lor alți oameni în derivă, de la truditori ai pământului și tămăduitori prin rugăciuni la familii dezrădăcinate și suflete pierdute. „Amplu, profund și nespus de captivant — cititorii vor savura fiecare pagină." - New York Journal of Books „Dacă vrei să citești o saga americană de amplă respirație, cu o atmosferă nostalgică, atunci romanul lui Krueger e alegerea perfectă." - Entertainment Weekly „O odisee impresionantă, o căutare a identității și a unui cămin." – Booklist „Minunat scris și dând viață unor personaje memorabile, Acest tărâm al blândeții va învinge timpul." - Denver Post William Kent Krueger este un faimos scriitor american, cunoscut mai ales pentru seria de romane polițiste plasate în Minnesota și avându-l drept protagonist pe Cork O’Connor. Și-a dorit să devină scriitor încă din copilărie, când a scris prima sa povestire. A primit nenumărate distincții, printre care Anthony Award, Minnesota Book Award, Loft-McKnight Fiction Award. Primul său roman de sine stătător, Ordinary Grace (2013), a fost recompensat cu Edgar Award.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! “If you liked Where the Crawdads Sing, you’ll love This Tender Land...This story is as big-hearted as they come.” —Parade A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the bestselling author of Ordinary Grace. 1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphans will journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an en­thralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger delivers another heart-pounding thriller filled with “dynamic action scenes” (The New York Times) as Cork O’Connor and his son Stephen work together to uncover the truth behind the death of a senator on Desolation Mountain and the mysterious disappearances of several first responders. 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. As he initiates his own probe, Cork 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. Roadblocked by lies from the highest levels of government, uncertain who to trust, and facing growing threats the deeper they dig for answers, Cork, Stephen, and Bo 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. Krueger delivers yet another “punch-to-the-gut blend of detective story and investigative fiction” (Booklist, starred review).

È l’estate del 1961 a New Bremen, in Minnesota, un’estate torrida e funesta, destinata a cambiare per sempre la vita del tredicenne Frank Drum, figlio del pastore Nathan e di Ruth, una donna di straordinaria bellezza, ma immalinconita dalla vita di moglie di un ministro del culto. Frank ha un fratello più piccolo, Jake, detto Howdy Doody per via delle orecchie a sventola che sporgono come manici di una zuccheriera, e una sorella più grande, Ariel, destinata a una brillante carriera di musicista. Quell’estate la morte viene a visitare la famiglia Drum e l’intera New Bremen assumendo molteplici forme: incidente, malattia, suicidio, omicidio. Tutto comincia con la strana fine di Bobby Cole, un coetaneo di Frank dai capelli dorati e gli occhiali spessi, ucciso sui binari della ferrovia da mille tonnellate d’acciaio in corsa nella prateria verso il South Dakota, e prosegue con il ritrovamento quasi contemporaneo del cadavere di un vagabondo presso il ponte sul fiume Minnesota, non lontano dal luogo che Bobby amava frequentare, perso nei suoi sogni a occhi aperti. Là dove il ponte di cavalletti varca il fiume e i roveti e i cardi crescono fino al bordo della massicciata, si dà appuntamento una comunità di sfaccendati noti a New Bremen, gente che, stando agli abitanti della piccola città, ha un sacco di pensieri malati nella testa e da cui è opportuno tenersi alla larga. Gli ammonimenti valgono però poco alle orecchie di un tredicenne in cerca d’avventura, e così Frank Drum non esita ad avventurarsi da quelle parti e a fare la conoscenza di Warren Redstone, un indiano Dakota che, anni prima, ha cercato di provocare un’insurrezione a Sioux, mettendosi nei guai con i federali. Un incontro che assume sfumature inquietanti quando Frank sorprende Warren con indosso gli occhiali di Bobby Cole, e ancora più allarmanti quando lo osserva mentre con aria furtiva nasconde degli oggetti in un luogo appartato nei boschi. Con una prosa fluida, veloce e coinvolgente William Kent Krueger ha scritto un romanzo di formazione profondo e toccante, una storia indimenticabile sulla perdita dell’innocenza, sul prezzo da pagare per diventare adulti e sulla terribile grazia della vita. New York Times bestseller Vincitore dell’Edgar Award Vincitore del Goodreads Choice Award Miglior romanzo dell’anno per School Library Journal «Il prezzo crudele dell’età adulta e della saggezza. Io amo questo libro». Dennis Lehane «Elegiaca, evocativa ... una storia di rabbia, colpa e redenzione». Publishers Weekly

The New York Times bestselling author of Ordinary Grace weaves 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.

“Mystery fans can count on William Kent Krueger for an absorbing book with lots of twists and turns” (Denver Post) and now you can enjoy three absorbing and suspenseful Cork O’Conner mysteries in one stunning collection. Tamarack County: As a blizzard swells in Tamarack County, a car belonging to the wife of a retired local judge is discovered abandoned on the side of the road. Early on in the investigation of her disappearance, Cork O’Connor, ex-sheriff of Tamarack County, notices small details that tell a disturbing story. When a neighbor’s dog is found beheaded and Cork’s son is attacked, he realizes these ominous incidents throughout the area have a pattern: someone is spinning a deadly web, and Cork has only hours to stop it before his family and his friends will be forced to pay the ultimate price. Windigo Island: When the body of a teenaged Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper that it was the work of a deadly mythical beast, the Windigo. Such stories have been told by the Ojibwe people for generations, but they don’t explain how the girl and her friend, Mariah Arceneaux, disappeared a year ago. At the request of the Arceneaux family, Cork O’Connor takes on the case and he learns that the old port city of Duluth is a modern-day center for sex trafficking of vulnerable women, many of whom are young Native Americans. As the investigation deepens, so does the danger. Yet Cork is resolute in his vow to find Mariah, with only the barest hope of saving her from men whose darkness rivals that of the legendary Windigo, Cork prepares for an epic battle that will determine whether it will be fear, or love, that truly conquers all. Manitou Canyon: Cork O’Connor is uneasy when his daughter chooses November as the month to set the date for her wedding. Since the violent deaths of his wife, father, and best friend all occurred in previous Novembers, Cork O’Connor has always considered it to the cruelest of months. His concern comes to a head when a man camping in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area goes missing. Although the wedding is fast approaching and the weather looks threatening, Cork ventures into the vast wilderness to search. With an early winter storm on the horizon, it is a race against time as Cork’s family struggles to uncover the mystery behind these disappearances. Little do they know, not only is Cork’s life on the line, but so are the lives of hundreds of others.

In the extraordinary new Cork O’Connor thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author William Kent Krueger, the lives of hundreds of innocent people are at stake when Cork vanishes just days before his daughter’s wedding. Since the violent deaths of his wife, father, and best friend all occurred in previous Novembers, Cork O’Connor has always considered it to be the cruelest of months. Yet, his daughter has chosen this dismal time of year in which to marry, and Cork is understandably uneasy. His concern comes to a head when a man camping in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness goes missing. As the official search ends with no recovery in sight, Cork is asked by the man’s family to stay on the case. Although the wedding is fast approaching and the weather looks threatening, he accepts and returns to that vast wilderness. As the sky darkens and the days pass, Cork’s family anxiously awaits his return. Finally certain that something has gone terribly wrong, they fly by floatplane to the lake where the missing man was last seen. Locating Cork’s campsite, they find no sign of him. They do find blood, however. A lot of it. With an early winter storm on the horizon, it’s a race against time as Cork’s family struggles to uncover the mystery behind these disappearances. Little do they know, not only is Cork’s life on the line, but so are the lives of hundreds of others.

As the author of over fifteen spellbinding novels in the Cork O’Connor mystery series, William Kent Krueger has introduced countless readers to a harsh but magnificent Minnesota landscape and a cast of remarkable characters who call it home. This is the world of Cork O’Connor. Now in this helpful reader’s companion, readers can gain new insight into how the series has evolved book after book, how Cork O’Connor came to exist as a character, and how Minnesota’s great Northwoods proved to be as important to the books as any human character Krueger created. You’ll find a brief description of each book in the series, a concordance of the characters introduced in each book, and a tantalizing excerpt. Whether you are just discovering William Kent Krueger’s masterful storytelling skills or have been a fan for years, The World of Cork O’Connor provides an overview of an extraordinary body of work that only gets richer over time, and a glimpse into the mind of a gifted writer.

Three heartpounding New York Times bestselling Cork O’Connor mysteries in one impossible-to-put-down ebook! Vermilion Drift: Cork stumbles across the remains of six murder victims in an underground mine. Five are connected to a series of old unsolved disappearances. But the sixth is fresh. What’s worse, two of the victims—including the most recent—were killed with Cork’s gun. As Cork searches for answers, he must dig into his own past and that of his father, a well-respected man who harbored a ghastly truth. Northwest Angle: Amid the wreckage of a violent storm, Cork O’Connor and his daughter Jenny discover a body. Nearby, a baby boy lies hungry and dehydrated but still very much alive. Powerful forces in pursuit of the child follow them to the isolated Northwest Angle, where it’s impossible to tell who is friend or foe. Trickster’s Point: Cork O’Connor sits deep in the wilderness with his good friend Jubal Little—favored to become Minnesota’s first Native American elected governor—who is slowly dying with an arrow through his heart. But this is no hunting accident. The arrow is one of Cork’s. As he works to clear his name and track the killer who set him up, only Cork knows that his complex, passionate, ambitious friend was also capable of murder.

Cork O’Connor battles vicious villains, both mythical and modern, to rescue a young girl in this riveting mystery from New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award–winning author William Kent Krueger. When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper that it was the work of a deadly mythical beast, the Windigo, or a vengeful spirit called Michi Peshu. Such stories have been told by the Ojibwe people for generations, but they don’t explain how the girl and her friend, Mariah Arceneaux, disappeared a year ago. At the request of the Arceneaux family, private investigator Cork O’Connor takes on the case. But on the Bad Bluff reservation, nobody’s talking. Still, Cork puts enough information together to find a possible trail. He learns that the old port city of Duluth is a modern-day center for sex trafficking of vulnerable women, many of whom are young Native Americans. As the investigation deepens, so does the danger. Yet Cork holds tight to his higher purpose—his vow to find Mariah, an innocent fifteen-year-old girl whose family is desperate to get her back. With only the barest hope of saving her from men whose darkness rivals that of the legendary Windigo, Cork prepares for an epic battle that will determine whether it will be fear, or love, that truly conquers all.

Faced with a series of dark occurrences that are linked to a twenty-year-old murder, private investigator Cork O' Connor must stop a vengeful force before his family and friends pay the ultimate price.

Three knockout Cork O’Connor mysteries in one unputdownable ebook! Thunder Bay: Cork O’ Connor vows to save his friend and spiritual advisor whose life has been threatened by a wealthy industrialist. The past and present collide along the rocky shores of Thunder Bay, where a father's unconditional love is tested by a son's deeply felt resentment, and where jealousy and revenge remain the code among men. Red Knife: The daughter of a powerful businessman dies as a result of her meth addiction; her father, strong-willed and brutal, vows revenge. His target is the Red Boyz, a gang of Native American youths accused of supplying the girl's fatal drug dose. When the leader and his wife are murdered, the gang mobilizes, and the citizens of Tamarack County brace themselves for war, white against red. Heaven’s Keep: Intrepid hero Cork O’ Connor faces the most harrowing mission of his life when a charter plane carrying his wife, Jo, goes missing in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961. “That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family—which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister; and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother—he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years. Told from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.

Cork O'Connor, ex sceriffo e ora investigatore privato, ha perso sua moglie. Il charter su cui lei era in viaggio non è risultato disperso in una tormenta di neve sulle montagne del Wyoming. Cork, rimasto solo, ha perso la voglia di lottare. Ma quando, tempo dopo, due donne lo convincono a indagare sul pilota, quel misterioso incidente aereo assume una luce diversa.

"The roots of this book were a series of writing classes held at The Mystery Company in Carmel, Indiana and co-sponsored by the Writer's Center of Indiana."--Introd.

Discovering that he has been set up when Native American Governor-elect Jubal Little is murdered with one of Cork's bow-hunting arrows, Cork O'Connor recalls his complex relationship with Jubal while struggling to clear his name and find the real killer.

With his family caught in the crosshairs of a group of brutal killers, detective Cork O’Connor must solve the murder of a young girl in the latest installment of William Kent Krueger’s unforgettable New York Times bestselling series. During a houseboat vacation on the remote Lake of the Woods, a violent gale sweeps through unexpectedly, stranding Cork and his daughter, Jenny, on a devastated island where the wind has ushered in a force far darker and more deadly than any storm. Amid the wreckage, Cork and Jenny discover the body of a teenage girl. She wasn’t killed by the storm, however; she’d been bound and tortured before she died. Nearby, underneath a tangle of branches, they also find a baby boy, hungry and dehydrated, but still very much alive. Powerful forces intent on securing the child pursue them to the isolated Northwest Angle, where it’s impossible to tell who among the residents is in league with the devil, but Cork understands that to save his family he must solve the puzzle of this mysterious child whom death follows like a shadow. “Part adventure, part mystery, and all knockout thriller” (Booklist), Northwest Angle is a dynamic addition to William Kent Krueger’s critically acclaimed, award-winning series.

Dans la lignée de Craig Johnson et de Donald Harstad, un superbe thriller sur fond de culture indienne, prenant pour cadre les décors naturels du Minnesota. Corcorac "Cork" O'Connor est irlandais par son père et indien anishinaabe par sa mère. Après une carrière dans la police de Chicago, il est revenu vivre dans sa ville natale d'Aurora, Minnesota pour occuper le poste de shérif. Mais un conflit à l'issue dramatique l'a contraint à démissionner et il vit désormais seul, séparé de sa femme, Nancy Joe, avocate en charge des intérêts indiens. Le jour où le juge d'Aurora est retrouvé mort dans d'étranges circonstances et qu'un garçon d'origine indienne est suspecté de l'avoir tué, les tensions s'exacerbent entre les communautés. Alors qu'un blizzard s'abat sur la ville qui disparaît peu à peu sous la neige, Cork va devoir affronter les fantômes du passé pour faire surgir une vérité bien plus inattendue encore que tout ce qu'il avait imaginé. Avec une écriture d'un réalisme presque documentaire, William Kent Krueger nous fait voyager dans les paysages glaciaux et menaçants qui ont servi de décor naturel à Fargo ou à Un plan simple pour une enquête passionnante et pleine de rebondissements. L'attention qu'il porte à la nature du Minnesota se double d'un portrait passionnant du peuple indien, de sa culture, de ses croyances et de son intégration dans le monde moderne. Aurora, Minnesota a reçu les deux plus prestigieux prix américains de littérature policière, l'Antony Award et le Barry Award.

Includes excerpt of Heaven's Keep by William Kent Krueger (p.[435-443]).

Krueger's hero is running from professional hit men and he stumbles upon a murderous conspiracy involving teenage runaways.

Blood Hollow immerses readers in an eerie mystery surrounding a racially charged murder in small-town Minnesota.

Cork O'Connor is called in to investigate when a deadly explosion rocks the lumber mill of Karl Lindstrom, a wealthy, anti-environmentalist industrialist, whose mill is near an ancient tract of pine forest sacred to the Anishinaabe tribe.

El parque natural de Quetico-Superior: un millón de hectáreas de bosques primigenios, rápidos de aguas blancas e islas inexploradas en la frontera entre Canadá y Estados Unidos. En algún lugar en pleno corazón de este agreste territorio, en la zona conocida como Boundary Waters, Shiloh —una cantante de country-western en la cumbre de la fama— desaparece. Su padre llega a Aurora, Minnesota, empeñado en contratar a Cork O’Connor —antiguo sheriff de Aurora y viejo amigo de la familia— para que encuentre a su hija. A pesar de sus reticencias iniciales, Cork se ve obligado a formar parte de una expedición de búsqueda compuesta por el padre de Shiloh, un ex presidiario resentido, dos agentes del FBI y un niño de diez años. Pero no son los únicos que van en pos de Shiloh. Tras su pista también hay hombres a sueldo: contratados no sólo para encontrarla... sino también para matarla. Mientras la expedición se adentra en aquel paraje salvaje, unos extraños llegan a Aurora amenazando con derramar sangre sobre las calles blanqueadas por la nieve; todo por un crimen que ha permanecido sin resolver durante quince años. Entretanto, en Boundary Waters el invierno empieza a hacer sus estragos. El equipo de Cork pierde todo contacto con la civilización, y la muerte, tenaz y repentina como las implacables tormentas de nieve de Minnesota, les acecha. Con EL SUSURRO DEL WÉNDIGO, William Kent Krueger sorprendió a crítica y público como una voz de electrizante frescura dentro de los anales del suspense. Vívida, explosiva y tremendamente absorbente, LA CAZA DE SHILOH no es sólo una obra maestra de la intriga, es mucho más; es una brillante novela donde se entremezclan la codicia, el asesinato y la supervivencia, una extraordinaria y arrebatadora narración que sitúa a Krueger como uno de los autores más versátiles y con mayor talento de nuestros días.

From the creator of the critically acclaimed, award-winning Cork O'Connor mystery series comes a haunting, atmospheric, conspiracy thriller. 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.