Apostle's Cove
A Novel
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- $26.99
Publisher Description
The New York Times bestselling Cork O’Connor Mystery series—a “master class in suspense and atmospheric storytelling” (The Real Book Spy)—continues with Cork O’Connor revisiting a case from his past and confronting mysterious deaths in the present.
A few nights before Halloween, as Cork O’Connor gloomily ruminates on his upcoming birthday, he receives a call from his son, Stephen, who is working for a nonprofit dedicated to securing freedom for unjustly incarcerated inmates. Stephen tells his father that decades ago, as the newly elected sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork was responsible for sending an Ojibwe man named Axel Boshey to prison for a brutal murder that Stephen is certain he did not commit.
Cork feels compelled to reinvestigate the crime, but that is easier said than done. Not only is it a closed case but Axel Boshey is, inexplicably, refusing to help. The deeper Cork digs, the clearer it becomes that there are those in Tamarack County who are willing once again to commit murder to keep him from finding the truth.
At the same time, Cork’s seven-year-old grandson has his own theory about the investigation: the Windigo, that mythic cannibal ogre, has come to Tamarack County…and it won’t leave until it has sated its hunger for human blood.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Edgar winner Krueger continues his long-running Cork O'Connor series (after Spirit Crossing) with a top-shelf whodunit. Cork, now a PI, is dreading his upcoming 60th birthday when he gets a call from his son, Stephen, an intern with an Innocence Project–style organization that seeks to overturn wrongful convictions. Stephen believes that the first major investigation Cork oversaw as sheriff of Tamarack County, Minn., put an innocent man behind bars. The first half of the book recounts that case, detailing the murder of Chastity Boshey and the events that led to the confession and conviction of her husband, Axel. The second half sees Cork reopen the case only to meet puzzling resistance from Axel, and look into a new murder that seems linked to Chastity's. Krueger's muscular prose keeps the action chugging along, but not at the expense of detailed character work: the author's portraits of Axel, Cork, and their associates across more than a quarter-century lend the narrative a stirring humanity. Add in a vividly rendered setting and an elegant dual-timeline plot, and this proves that Krueger is still at the top of his game.
