Boundary Waters
- Published
- 1 January 1999
- Pages
- 325
- ISBN-13
- 9780671016999
- Type
- novel
About this book
The second Cork O'Connor novel, "Boundary Waters" (1999, 325 pages) takes its title from the northern Minnesota wilderness Krueger writes as its own character, weaving in the land disputes and old grudges between Tamarack County and the neighboring Iron Lake Ojibwe reservation.
Key facts about Boundary Waters
Boundary Waters is a novel by William Kent Krueger. Readers have had it since 1999. It runs to 325 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Boundary Waters. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780671016999 to find the main one.
Boundary Waters is book 2 of 22 in the Cork O'Connor series. The series has 22 published books. However, the series starts with Iron Lake (1998). God's Country is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 18 August 2026.
That series sits on our mystery shelf. Meanwhile, God's Country is the latest published William Kent Krueger book on file, from 18 August 2026.
About William Kent Krueger
William Kent Krueger is an American novelist best known for the Cork O'Connor series, set in the fictional town of Aurora on Minnesota's Iron Lake and following a former sheriff of mixed Irish and Ojibwe heritage who works as a private investigator across cases steeped in the culture, land, and politics of the Upper Midwest and the Ojibwe community that borders it. See every William Kent Krueger book in order.
Its place in Cork O'Connor
Boundary Waters is book 2 in the Cork O'Connor series. It follows Iron Lake. It is followed by Purgatory Ridge. See the full Cork O'Connor reading order.
Cork O'Connor is the former sheriff of Tamarack County in Minnesota's rugged Iron Lake country -- half Irish, half Ojibwe, deeply rooted in both communities and fully at home in neither. William Kent Krueger builds each novel around a crime that pulls at the seams between Cork's two heritages: tensions between the town and the neighboring Iron Lake Ojibwe reservation, land and resource disputes, old grudges and family secrets that stretch back generations. The wilderness itself -- the Boundary Waters, the deep…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780671016999
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781439120019