Krueger, William Kent

Cork O'Connor is looking forward to a life of relative peace as a private investigator, but when Cork is asked to find an old friend's son, Cork is pulled into a murder investigation that will rock the town of Thunder Bay.

"Faced with a series of dark occurrences that are linked to a twenty-year-old murder, private investigator Cork O' Connor must stop a vengeful force before his family and friends pay the ultimate price"--Provided by OCLC.

O'Connor is caught in the middle of a gang dispute between the Aurora Anglos and the Ojibwe Reservation Red Boyz, a situation that turns deadly when the Red Boyz leader and his wife are found murdered.

Former sheriff Cork O'Connor is called in to investigate when an explosion rocks a lumber mill owned by wealthy industrialist Karl Lindstrom, resulting in the death of a night watchman, and casting suspicion on the Anishinaabe people who had expressed concern over the mill's proximity to a stand of ancient white pines sacred to the tribe.

Thirteen-year-old Frank Drum is living with his family in New Bremen, Minnesota, in the summer 1961, when tragedy strikes hard and frequently and Frank is thrust into an adult world of secrets, lies, and betrayal.

Detective Cork O'Connor must solve the murder of a young girl while stranded on a remote island with his daughter, Jenny, where they discover an abandoned baby boy with a link to the victim, and the killer, who will stop at nothing to keep Cork from revealing his identity.

Cork O'Connor, sheriff of Tamarack County, Minnesota, tries to figure out who is trying to kill him while at the same time investigating the murder of a Chicago businessman who was negotiating an unpopular contract between his firm and the local Indian casino.

A hated judge is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a town in Minnesota with an Indian casino, and a young Ojibwa Indian leaves home in a hurry. Former sheriff Cork O'Connor investigates if there is a connection.

Cork O'Connor tries to accept that his wife Jo is dead after her plane goes down in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies, but when two women show up months later with evidence that the pilot was not who he claimed to be, Cork starts a dangerous investigation that he hopes will lead him to Jo.

Ex-sheriff Cork O'Connor, on the run from contract killers, takes refuge in an old resort on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan owned by his cousin, a bitter widow with a teenage son, but he is unable to stay in hiding when the body of a young girl is found along the Copper River, a second teen vanishes, and all evidence leads to a shelter for homeless youth.