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Cork O'Connor · Book 10

Vermilion Drift

by William Kent Krueger
Published
1 January 2010
Pages
304
ISBN-13
9781439153840
Type
novel
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About this book

Preceded by "Heaven's Keep" and followed by "Northwest Angle," "Vermilion Drift" (2010) holds the tenth spot in the Cork O'Connor series, continuing William Kent Krueger's exploration of old family secrets stretching back generations in Tamarack County.

Key facts about Vermilion Drift

William Kent Krueger wrote Vermilion Drift, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2010. The book has 304 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781439153840 to find the main one.

Vermilion Drift is book 10 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

Vermilion Drift is book 10 in the Cork O'Connor series. It follows Heaven's Keep. It is followed by Northwest Angle. 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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