When mayhem descends on a tiny logging town, former sheriff Cork O\'Connor is called upon to investigate a murder in this wonderful page-turner ( The Denver Post ) that prolongs suspense to the very end ( Publishers Weekly ) by Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger.
And it soon becomes clear to Cork that danger, both at home and in Aurora, lurks around every corner....
Meanwhile, near Lindstrom\'s lakeside home, a reclusive shipwreck survivor and his sidekick are harboring their own resentment of the industrialist.
For another, his wife, a lawyer, represents the tribe.
For one thing, he is part Anishinaabe.
Former sheriff Cork O\'Connor agrees to help investigate, but he has mixed feelings about the case.
When an explosion kills the night watchman at wealthy industrialist Karl Lindstrom\'s nearby lumber mill, it\'s obvious where suspicion will fall.
Not far from Aurora, Minnesota (population 3,752), lies an ancient expanse of great white pines, sacred to the Anishinaabe tribe.
When mayhem descends on a tiny logging town, former sheriff Cork O\'Connor is called upon to investigate a murder in this wonderful page-turner ( The Denver Post ) that prolongs suspense to the very end ( Publishers Weekly ) by Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger
