Lightning Strike
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…
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Desolation Mountain
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
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
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
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.…
Tamarack County
Tamarack County is a Cork O’Connor novel set during a brutal Minnesota winter, when a local disappearance opens the door to something older and far more disturbing. The immediate case involves Evelyn Carter, the wife of a retired judge, whose…
Trickster’s Point
Trickster’s Point is a Cork O’Connor novel that begins with a killing so direct and personal that Cork himself is drawn into the center of the crime. Deep in the Minnesota wilderness, he is with his old friend Jubal Little,…
Northwest Angle
Northwest Angle is a Cork O’Connor novel that pushes the series into survival territory as much as mystery. What begins as a family houseboat trip on Lake of the Woods turns dangerous when a violent storm separates Cork from his…
Vermilion Drift
Vermilion Drift is a Cork O’Connor novel that brings the series back to northern Minnesota with a mystery rooted in both public controversy and buried history. Cork is hired as a security consultant after an old iron mine in Tamarack…
Heaven’s Keep
Heaven’s Keep is a Cork O’Connor novel that places its longtime protagonist in one of the most personal and devastating situations of the series. The story begins when Cork’s wife, Jo, is believed lost after a charter plane disappears in…