Red Knife

Its place in Cork O'Connor

Red Knife is book 8 in the Cork O'Connor series. It follows Thunder Bay. It is followed by Heaven's Keep. 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…