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William Kent Krueger – Lightning Strike – back to yesteryear!

Lightning Strike – William Kent Krueger. (Read – December 27-January 8,2022) Lightning Strike is book #0 in the Cork O’Connor series by William Kent Krueger. Lightning Strike is set in 1963, when Cork was a twelve year-old and his father Liam was the sheriff of Tamarack County, Minnesota. While on a hike into the Boundary Waters Cork and his friends make a side trip to Lightning Strike. Lightning Strike was the site of a logging workers camp that was destroyed by a lightning strike.  The Objiwe believed the destruction was an act of their God. When they arrive at the site, they…

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Manitou Canyon – William Kent Krueger as Good as Ever!

Manitou Canyon – William Kent Krueger (Cork O’Connor series Boo #15) Manitou Canyon is the fifteenth book in the Cork O’Connor series from William Kent Krueger. And I for one don’t think the series is slowing down at all! I have read all of the books in this series and this one holds its own with any of them.While the Cork O’Connor books are firmly planted in the  mystery.thriller genre they are also more than just mysteries. They are also books about family and cultural identity. About Manitou Canyon When Manitou Canyon  opens it is November and the O’Connor’s are preparing…

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Ordinary Grace – William Kent Krueger

  Ordinary Grace – William Kent Krueger – Not an Ordinary book – an extraordinary book!   So while I have not posted much over the last few days, I have finished three books. Finished first was William Kent Krueger’s Ordinary Grace, which was closely followed up by The Forgotten Room from Lincoln Child. Then today, I finished The Toaster Oven Mocks Me by Steve Margolis. Two novels and a personal memoir, all very good. In this post I will write about the first book Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger. William Kent Krueger is the author of the Cork O’Connor series…

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Windigo Island – William Kent Krueger

Windigo Island-  William Kent Krueger – (Cork O’Connor # 14)   I started reading the Cork O’Connor series from William Kent Krueger back in 2003 when I picked up Purgatory Ridge, Book #3 in the series, at the library. After finishing the book I quickly sought out the first two books in the series and have not missed a book since!! Cork O’ Connor is the former sheriff of Tamarack County, Minnesota, he is part Ojibwe and Irish. He is also the father of Jennie, Annie and Stephen O’Connor and is constantly battling evil in the County and beyond. Cork…

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Book 30 – Northwest Angle – William Kent Krueger

So you know I love books that take mw to places I’ll never see or teach me things I didn’t know and Book 30 of 2011 Northwest Angle is one of them. Author William Kent Krueger set this book the 11th in the Cork O’Connor series in the area of Minnesota known as the Northwest Angle. This pennisula juts into the Lake of the Woods and is the farthest point north in the lower 48 states. You can not reach this piece of the United States by land without going through Canada! It can of course be reach by air or…

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Vermillon Drift – William Kent Krueger

It’s been a busy day at the College of William and Mary a nice luncheon on the grounds near the Wren Building and the President’s House and then a rout of Villanova that turned into a nail biter that ended ok as W&M won 31-24! So there was not a lot of time for music, but I did finish Book 35 last night William Kent Krueger’s latest  Vermillon Drift. This is one of my favorite series. The books all ways have much more than just a mystery in them as Krueger explores the complexities of life through Cork O’Connor. The story…

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