Cork O'Connor · Book 1

Iron Lake

by William Kent Krueger

Published
1 January 1998
Pages
464
ISBN-13
9780613494397
Type
novel

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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.

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…

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