Iron Lake
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN-13
- 9780613494397
- Type
- novel
About this book
William Kent Krueger's 1998 series opener, "Iron Lake" (464 pages) introduces former Tamarack County sheriff Cork O'Connor — half Irish, half Ojibwe, and at home fully in neither community — in the wilderness setting of Minnesota's Iron Lake country that gives the book its name.
Key facts about Iron Lake
William Kent Krueger wrote Iron Lake, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1998. The book has 464 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780613494397 to find the main one.
Iron Lake is book 1 of 22 in the Cork O'Connor series. The series has 22 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. 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
Iron Lake is book 1 in the Cork O'Connor series. It is followed by Boundary Waters. 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 9780613494397