Cork O'Connor · Book 6

Copper River

Published
1 January 2006
Pages
320
ISBN-13
9781416514466
Type
novel
Cover of Copper River

About this book

William Kent Krueger published "Copper River" in 2006 as the sixth Cork O'Connor novel (320 pages), continuing the series' long-running family arcs involving Cork's wife Jo and children Jenny, Annie and Stephen.

Key facts about Copper River

Copper River is a novel by William Kent Krueger. Readers have had it since 2006. It runs to 320 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of Copper River. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781416514466 to find the main one.

Copper River is book 6 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

Copper River is book 6 in the Cork O'Connor series. It follows Mercy Falls. It is followed by Thunder Bay. 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…

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