Below is the complete list of William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series. Cork O’Connor Books in Publication Order About Cork O’Connor The Cork O’Connor series by William…
God’s Country is a Cork O’Connor novel that sends its longtime protagonist back into the Minnesota wilderness under a shadow of dread. As Cork prepares for a family trip into the Boundary Waters, he is troubled by ominous visions about…
Apostle’s Cove is a later Cork O’Connor novel that turns back toward an old case with consequences that have never fully gone away. As Cork approaches his sixtieth birthday, he gets a call from his son Stephen, who is working…
Spirit Crossing is a Cork O’Connor novel that opens with two troubling cases moving side by side through northern Minnesota. The disappearance of a local politician’s teenage daughter draws intense public attention and a major search effort, but at nearly…
Fox Creek is a Cork O’Connor novel that shifts much of its focus to Henry Meloux, the aging Ojibwe healer whose presence has long shaped the series from the edges. After foreseeing his own death, Henry retreats into the Northwoods,…
Lightning Strike is a prequel to the Cork O’Connor series, set when Cork is nearly thirteen and still living in Aurora, Minnesota. The novel follows a formative summer in 1963, when Cork and a friend discover the body of Big…
Desolation Mountain is a Cork O’Connor novel that begins with a plane crash deep in the wilderness near the Canadian border, where Cork joins the search and recovery effort after a summer storm. At first the disaster looks like a…
Sulfur Springs is a Cork O’Connor novel that takes the series out of Minnesota and into the tense, dangerous landscape of the Arizona borderlands. The story begins when Cork and his new wife, Rainy Bisonette, receive a desperate call from…
Manitou Canyon is a Cork O’Connor novel that begins just days before Cork’s daughter Jenny is due to be married, when a man disappears in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. After the official search is called off, Cork agrees…
Windigo Island is a Cork O’Connor novel that begins with the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washing ashore on an island in Lake Superior, reopening questions about her disappearance and that of her friend Mariah Arceneaux a year earlier.…