This is the summer that Cork O’Connor turns 13 and while this is a coming of age novel it is so much more. ***HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY - DON'T MISS THIS PREQUEL***īOYS GREW UP A LITTLE FASTER IN 1963, ESPECIALLY IN SMALL TOWN MINNESOTA! Thank you to Atria Books and NetGalley for this ARC. This has been a great introduction into the Cork O'Connor series and I look forward to all the books ahead of me. Cork's summer reflects what is happening to us today and so often there seems to be no answer to the problems of the world. No one is happy that Liam is looking for "facts" in the death of the dead man, when each side wants the other blamed for his death. This summer will harden Cork, as he loses his naivety and wonder about life and the future. Liam is white, Cork's mother is half white, half Ojibwe, Cork is a quarter Ojibwe. But Cork and his dad suspect otherwise and as they try to determine who might have killed this man, not only does the town's divide become more apparent between white and Ojibwe, but even his family starts to show cracks. The racial tension that he barely noticed in the past comes to a head when Cork finds a man he considered a mentor, hanging from a tree, in an apparent suicide. He's on the cusp of learning that all he thought was sacred and simple isn't so. Cork has his paper route, friends, baseball, biking, camping, church, family and dog. It's 1963 and Liam O’Connor, Cork's father, is Aurora’s sheriff. Lightning Strike takes place at a very pivotal time in Cork's life, the summer before he turns thirteen. Now Krueger has written a prequel to the entire series which gives me a great opportunity to jump in before it all began. Having read and greatly enjoyed Krueger's two stand alone novels, Ordinary Grace and This Tender Land, I knew I wanted to tackle his long running Cork O'Connor series. Lightning Strike (Cork O'Connor #0) by William Kent Krueger "Windigo Island," number fourteen in his Cork O’Connor series, was released in August 2014. "Ordinary Grace," his stand-alone novel published in 2013, received the Edgar Award, given by the Mystery Writers of America in recognition for the best novel published in that year. His last five novels were all New York Times bestsellers. His work has received a number of awards, including the Minnesota Book Award, the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Dilys Award, and the Friends of American Writers Prize. His protagonist is Cork O’Connor, the former sheriff of Tamarack County and a man of mixed heritage-part Irish and part Ojibwe. Krueger writes a mystery series set in the north woods of Minnesota. He’s been married for over 40 years to a marvelous woman who is an attorney. He currently makes his living as a full-time author. After that, he logged timber, worked construction, tried his hand at freelance journalism, and eventually ended up researching child development at the University of Minnesota. Raised in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, William Kent Krueger briefly attended Stanford University-before being kicked out for radical activities. In this masterful story of a young man and a town on the cusp of change, beloved novelist William Kent Krueger shows that some mysteries can be solved even as others surpass our understanding. Together, father and son face the ultimate test of choosing between what their heads tell them is true and what their hearts know is right. In the shadow of his father’s official investigation, Cork begins to look for answers on his own. But when Cork stumbles upon the body of a man he revered hanging from a tree in an abandoned logging camp, it is the first in a series of events that will cause him to question everything he took for granted about his hometown, his family, and himself.Ĭork’s father, Liam O’Connor, is Aurora’s sheriff, and it is his job to confirm that the man’s death was the result of suicide, as all the evidence suggests. In the summer of 1963, it is the whole world to 12-year-old Cork O’Connor, its rhythms as familiar as his own heartbeat. The author of the instant New York Times best seller This Tender Land returns with a powerful prequel to his acclaimed Cork O’Connor series - a book about fathers and sons, long-simmering conflicts in a small Minnesota town, and the events that echo through youth and shape our lives forever.Īurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of Minnesota’s Iron Lake.
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