Iron Lake: A Novel (1) (Cork O'Connor Mystery Series)

Read the thrilling, universally acclaimed debut that introduced the award-winning Cork O€Connor mystery series to the world by New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger.

Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Corcoran €œCork€ O'Connor is the former sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota. Embittered by his €œformer€ status, and the marital meltdown that has separated him from his children, Cork gets by on heavy doses of caffeine, nicotine, and guilt. Once a cop on Chicago€s South Side, there€s not much that can shock him. But when the town€s judge is brutally murdered, and a young Eagle Scout is reported missing, Cork takes on a twisty case of conspiracy, corruption, and scandal.

As a lakeside blizzard buries Aurora, Cork must dig out the truth among town officials who seem dead-set on stopping his investigation in its tracks. But even Cork freezes up when faced with the harshest enemy of all: a small-town secret that hits painfully close to home.