24, Totally Criminal Cocktail Hour, Zephyr Theater, Stillwater, $10 7 p.m. Maren Longbella is a Star Tribune copy editor.Įvents: 6 p.m. Maybe he should start calling himself an alchemist, because he has the formula down to an art. But 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. The author has consistently called himself a storyteller, not a writer, as if the one was somehow lesser than the other. Krueger wastes no time plunging into the action, using present tense to maintain immediacy and ratcheting up the tension through interspersed points of view in short, taut chapters. Cork is hesitant to put much stock in it (his relationship with the spiritual returns again and again throughout the series), but there's no doubt that Henry is in trouble. This genuinely thrilling and atmospheric novel brims with characters who are easy to root for. Cork is hard on their heels as he tries to unravel who the woman really is, why these men are looking for her and who hired them.Īdding to the urgency is the vision of Henry's death that has visited the healer. 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. Three guns-for-hire have come looking for a woman who has taken refuge with Henry Meloux, forcing the ancient Anishinaabe healer (and recurring character, if you're not in the know) to escape into the wilderness with the woman and Cork's wife.

FOX CREEK, his 19th Cork O’Connor mystery, is the most suspenseful and intense book in the series that I have read thus far. That's a lot of mayhem, even for a fictional place, and former sheriff Cork O'Connor is hip-deep in it in 'Fox Creek,' the latest addition to William Kent Krueger's mystery series. Fox Creek William Kent Krueger There has always been a gentle calmness in the writing of William Kent Krueger, and the way he captures the beauty of America’s wide open country is rivaled only by C.

Trouble has returned - for the 19th time! - to the northern Minnesota town of Aurora, population 3,700.

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