o'connor, cork (fictional character)

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.

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.

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.

Former sheriff Cork O'Connor reluctantly agrees to lead a search party to look for Shiloh, a country-western singer who has disappeared into the Quetico-Superior Wilderness on the Canadian/American border, not realizing the young woman is also being hunted by hired men who want her dead.

Former sheriff Cork O'Connor reluctantly agrees to lead a search party to look for Shiloh, a country-western singer who has disappeared into the Quetico-Superior Wilderness on the Canadian/American border, not realizing the young woman is also being hunted by hired men who want her dead.