“ Fox Creek is the best book in the series yet.” - Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Maybe he should start calling himself an alchemist, because he has the formula down to an art." - Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Krueger has exhibited a mastery and control that can't be denied.
“With its quick pacing and multi-layered plot, William Kent Krueger’s Fox Creek dazzles early, sucking readers in, before giving way to a heart-thumping final act that delivers one hell of a reading experience.” - The Real Book Spy Maybe he should start calling himself an alchemist, because he has the formula down to an art.” - St. “From Iron Lake - the first in the Cork O'Connor series - to Fox Creek, Krueger has exhibited a mastery and control that can't be denied. “As usual in a Krueger novel, the prose is elegant, the landscape of Minnesota’s northeastern triangle is vividly portrayed, the character development is superb, and Henry’s Native American mysticism is treated with understanding and respect.” - The Washington Post “This genuinely thrilling and atmospheric novel brims with characters who are easy to root for.”- The New York Times Book Review New and longtime “fans will be enthralled” ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) by this gripping and richly told addition to a masterful series. But his fiercest enemy in this deadly game of cat and mouse may well be his own deep self-doubt about his ability to save those he loves. He knows only too well that with each passing hour time is running out. Desperate, Cork begins tracking the killers but his own skills as a hunter are severely tested by nightfall and a late season snowstorm. Meanwhile, in Aurora, Cork works feverishly to identify the hunters and the reason for their relentless pursuit, but he has little to go on. On the last journey he may ever take into this beloved land, Meloux must do his best to outwit the deadly mercenaries who follow.
Meloux guides this stranger and his great niece, Cork O’Connor’s wife, to safety deep into the Boundary Waters, his home for more than a century. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking a woman named Dolores Morriseau, a stranger who had come to the healer for shelter and the gift of his wisdom. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. The New York Times bestselling Cork O’Connor Mystery Series returns with this “genuinely thrilling and atmospheric novel” ( The New York Times Book Review) as Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries.
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