o'connor, cork (fictitious character)

After 17-year-old Charlotte Kane - the beautiful, brilliant, and brooding daughter of a rich widower - disappears on a drunken New Year's Eve snowmobile ride, a raging blizzard soon snuffs out all search efforts. When her body is found during the spring thaw four months later, preliminary evidence implicates her ex-boyfriend - Ojibwe badboy, Solemn Winter Moon. But then a second Charlotte Kane turns up dead, and Cork isn't sure of anything any more.

Cork O'Connor, hired as a security consultant by the Department of Energy which is under fire for proposing an iron mine in Tamarack Country, Minnesota, as a site for nuclear waste, comes upon six murder victims in the mine--five connected to a series of unsolved disappearances nearly fifty years earlier, and one dead less than a week--and he must dig into his past for answers when he learns two of the victims, including the most recent, were killed by the gun given to him by his father.

Cork O'Connor becomes a suspect in the murder of Jubal Little, soon to be the first Native American elected governor of Minnesota, when his arrow is found through his heart, Cork works to clear his name and find the real killer.

"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.

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.