SummaryA brilliant new installment in the prize-winning Cork
O'Connor series -- from the acclaimed author of The Devil's
Bed and Purgatory Ridge -- immerses readers in an eerie
mystery surrounding a racially charged murder in small-town
Minnesota. Winner of the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award and the Anthony
Award for Best First Novel, William Kent Krueger is a
wholly original talent among mystery writers, managing to
fuse inspired, fluid storytelling with complex, finely
textured characterizations. Now, in a briskly paced novel
that outstrips even its predecessors in its ability to
ratchet up the suspense, Krueger takes us back to Aurora,
Minnesota, where the charismatic Cork O'Connor encounters
his most baffling case to date. When the corpse of a beautiful high school student is
discovered on a hillside four months after her
disappearance on New Year's Eve, all evidence points to her
boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite
Solemn's self-incriminating decision to go into hiding,
Cork O'Connor, Aurora's former sheriff, isn't about to hang
the crime on the kid, whom O'Connor is convinced is
innocent. In an uphill battle to clear Solemn's name, Cork
encounters no shortage of adversity. Some he knows all too
well -- small-town bigotry and bureaucracy foremost among
them. What Cork isn't prepared for is the emergence of a
long-held resentment hailing from his own childhood. And
when Solemn reappears, claiming to have seen a vision of
Jesus Christ in Blood Hollow, the mystery becomes thornier
than Cork could ever have anticipated. And that's when the
miracles start happening.... Praised by critics and peers alike for his bold and
insightful writing, William Kent Krueger has become a
master of mixing brilliant, evocative prose with stunning,
nonstop suspense. Readers are sure to be riveted by his
latest foray into the darkest corners of a small-town
paradise and the detective who is determined to bring it
all to light.
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