The William Kent Krueger Collection #4: Vermilion Drift, Northwest Angle, and Trickster's Point

Cork O'Connor #10-12

by William Kent Krueger

Three heartpounding New York Times bestselling Cork O’Connor mysteries in one impossible-to-put-down ebook!Vermilion 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 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 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.

Genres: Fiction

969 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 7, 2015

About the author

Raised in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, William Kent Krueger briefly attended Stanford University—before being kicked out for radical activities. After that, he logged timber, worked construction, tried his hand at freelance journalism, and eventually ended up researching child development at the University of Minnesota. He currently makes his living as a full-time author. He’s been married for over 40 years to a marvelous woman who is an attorney. He makes his home in St. Paul, a city he dearly loves.

Krueger writes a mystery series set in the north woods of Minnesota. His protagonist is Cork O’Connor, the former sheriff of Tamarack County and a man of mixed heritage—part Irish and part Ojibwe. His work has received a number of awards, including the Minnesota Book Award, the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Dilys Award, and the Friends of American Writers Prize. His last five novels were all New York Times bestsellers.

"Ordinary Grace," his stand-alone novel published in 2013, received the Edgar Award, given by the Mystery Writers of America in recognition for the best novel published in that year. "Windigo Island," number fourteen in his Cork O’Connor series, was released in August 2014.

Reviews

[Hannah Dnls]

Will this family ever get a break? I swear I keep reading them for a happy ending and I’m not gonna get that here.

I don’t buy the relationship between Rainy and Cork. However, I’m glad cork is dating someone his own age. Maybe I just miss Jo. (Also I realize these are fictional characters).

The last book in this series has a character with with cerebral palsy. I do not like how Kent displays that characters speech disability. Seems like he should have consulted someone with this disability to seem less brash and insulting.

I’ll read the other books in this series but sometimes I just need a break from everyone getting killed or beat up.

[Darlene Christensen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cork O'Connor takes his family on a trip aboard a houseboat to the Northwest Angle of Minnesota. What could happen on such a relaxing trip? How about a derecho, murder, shootings, stranded on a desolate island, a baby and mass destruction of many islands. An interesting story of how this family survives.

[angrykitty · Rating 4 out of 5]

so this is the format I read the Kent krueger books in. I wrote individual reviews for each book.

[Kerri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting story that starts answering some of the questions from previous books in the series.

[Pamela Enz · Rating 5 out of 5]

What am I going to do when I've read all of his books? He better start writing faster because I can't stop reading them. One of my favorite authors.

[Dianne Ferguson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the Cork O'Connor series. These 3 books were all very good mysteries.

[June Hiza]

William Monk, Sir Oliver Rathbone, Hester Latterly

[Kara Neal · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the middle one about the baby best. Ajajajajajaj sksir tmgofkrmtjsjekr
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[Carol Crigger · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been on a Cork O'Connor binge lately, and enjoying every one.