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Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor Mystery Series) Mass Market Paperback – Import, 1 May 1999

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William Kent Krueger joined the ranks of today's best suspense novelists with this thrilling, universally acclaimed debut. Conjuring "a sense of place he's plainly honed firsthand in below-zero prairie" (Kirkus Reviews), Krueger brilliantly evokes northern Minnesota's lake country -- and reveals the dark side of its snow-covered landscape.
Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor is the former sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota. Embittered by his "former" status, and the marital meltdown that has separated him from his children, Cork gets by on heavy doses of caffeine, nicotine, and guilt. Once a cop on Chicago's South Side, there's not much that can shock him. But when the town's judge is brutally murdered, and a young Eagle Scout is reported missing, Cork takes on a mind-jolting case of conspiracy, corruption, and scandal.
As a lakeside blizzard buries Aurora, Cork must dig out the truth among town officials who seem dead-set on stopping his investigation in its tracks. But even Cork freezes up when faced with the harshest enemy of all: a small-town secret that hits painfully close to home.

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1 May 1999
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David Housewright Edgar Award-winning author of Practice to Deceive Iron Lake is an explosive brew: one part James Ellroy, one part Stephen King, one part Jack London, and all parts terrific...A truly remarkable first novel.

Stephen Greenleaf Author of Past Tense Iron Lake is as powerful as a Minnesota blizzard...

The Drood Review I can't remember reading a better first novel than this one....

Philip Reed Author of Low Rider Iron Lake is that rare combination: a page turner and a deeply felt character study.

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William Kent Krueger is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestselling Ordinary Grace, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel, as well as eighteen Cork O’Connor novels, including Desolation Mountain and Sulfur Springs. He lives in the Twin Cities with his family. Visit his website at WilliamKentKrueger.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pocket Star; Reprint edition (1 May 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0671016970
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0671016975
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 227 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.64 x 3.81 x 17.15 cm

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Raised in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, William Kent Krueger briefly attended Stanford University—before being kicked out for radical activities. After that, he logged timber, worked construction, tried his hand at freelance journalism, and eventually ended up researching child development at the University of Minnesota. He currently makes his living as a full-time author. He’s been married for over 40 years to a marvelous woman who is a retired attorney. He makes his home in St. Paul, a city he dearly loves.

Krueger writes a mystery series set in the north woods of Minnesota. His protagonist is Cork O’Connor, the former sheriff of Tamarack County and a man of mixed heritage—part Irish and part Ojibwe. His work has received a number of awards, including the Minnesota Book Award, the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Dilys Award, and the Friends of American Writers Prize. His last five novels were all New York Times bestsellers.

"Ordinary Grace," his stand-alone novel published in 2013, received the Edgar Award, given by the Mystery Writers of America in recognition for the best novel published in that year. "Manitou Canyon," number fifteen in his Cork O’Connor series, was released in September 2016. Visit his website at www.williamkentkrueger.com.

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Cafelattedoris

Conspiracy, corruption, scandal in a truly atmospheric novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 20 February 2018

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Having read and thoroughly enjoyed the stand alone novel "Ordinary Grace" by William Kent Krueger, I decided to read this, the first of his Cork O'Connor mystery series. I was a little disappointed. Very well written, as before, for some reason I didn't enjoy this as much. Of course, this is a different genre - a thriller, rather than something as thoughtful, sensitive and thought provoking as OG.
The series is based in and around the town of Aurora, Minnesota where Native American culture and history are strong - indeed the central character, Cork, is part Anishinaabe Indian. The author really evokes the countryside and wildness of this lake region in winter, and has researched the language, culture, language and history of the Anishinaabe and Ojibwe very well. The place and cultural setting certainly add a different twist, but I felt sometimes the amount of detail about the local myths didn't add that much. The central character is engaging and the body count climbs, starting from the opening pages. There's conspiracy, corruption, romance, scandal, the struggles of human relationships, an atmospheric setting and great sense of place. I would recommend and will read another....

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More than a murderer mystery

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My initial interest in this book was twofold: I am always up for a murder mystery and I enjoy learning about different places and cultures whilst reading a novel. Iron Lake delivered on both counts, the murder mystery slowly and inexorably becoming more involved, leaving plenty of opportunity for some satisfying and believable characterisation, an added bonus on top of the meticulously researched native American angle. The descriptions of the beauty and harshness of the Minnesota winter are stunning, as you can see from this short example: "Cork loved the painful cold of the morning, the brittle new snow beneath his boots, the breathless clarity of the sky."

It's hard to decide whether I prefer this novel for its characterisation of Cork O'Connor or its insight into the world of the Anishinaabe people. I shall look forward to renewing my acquaintance with Cork in the future.

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A superb book, full of wonderful prose, living characters, hidden pain.

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I was immediately captured by the quality of the prose here. There are so many wonderful passages throughout the book. The characters in the book are interesting and fully alive, as is our damaged Hero and his damaged marriage. This is not cliché, though.

The Greek tragedy of detectives in literature is that the pursuit of the truth and justice usually wrecks the lives around them, far more than if they'd just left things alone. You see this in most good detective-noir books these days. You always wonder "who would still be alive, who would be whole, if not for the detective's journey to truth" ....

"He looked at his hands. Big hands. How useless a man’s hands were, he thought, when it came to fixing the important things."

The presentation of American indian culture and life is wonderfully and sensitively done. I remember how much I enjoyed it in John Sandford's "Shadow Prey". Both these books open up a world I had not known before.

The pacing is very good throughout, with real dialogue and situations. Poor Cork and his life are so damaged from a past event, so unfairly, and even while he was being a good sheriff. His struggle is frustrating, especially in the first half of the book, but he does overcome most of these impediments to fulfil the hero inside (which is good for the subsequent books!)

The book is full of beautiful descriptions of the Anishinaabe culture, and the wilderness area around the town of Aurora, Minnesota

1% ....
They fasted the rest of the day and breathed in the smoke of a cedar fire. At first light next morning, they blackened their faces with the cedar ash, a sign to the spirits of the deep woods that they had purified themselves. Sam tied back his long black-and-gray hair with a leather cord ornamented with a single eagle feather. They smoked tobacco and red willow leaves mixed with powdered aster root as a hunting charm, then covered themselves with tallow made of various animal fats to disguise their scent from the bear.

The supernatural elements here are left mostly in the minds of the characters. The "paranormal" is not presented as "fact" or a "method of solution" to the mystery. I would probably have stopped if that were the case. Be assured, these elements enrich the story without taking it over.

There are many lovely passages throughout.... Beautiful....
She’d almost told him she loved him. So many times, she’d been on the edge of letting the words spill out, but her past had kept her cautious. And now she was glad, very glad, she hadn’t. Let him go back to a woman who didn’t care. [She] didn’t care either. What ran down her cheeks and tasted of salt wasn’t tears but good cleansing sweat. It poured from every part of her body. When she finally stood and ran outside, she trailed steam like a thing that had been through fire. As she dropped into the hole she’d cleared of ice, the bitterly cold water of the lake squeezed her hard, wrung her out, and left her wonderfully empty.

The ending is dragged out a bit too long, and is often confusing. Editing the culmination action into half as many pages would have helped a lot, but the final satisfying resolution is both painful and hopeful.

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26.0% .... this is the real thing. Wonderful prose, living characters, a poignant past and The Hero's journey unfolding. I miss Joseph Campbell.

27.0% ... as long as the Supernatural stays in people's heads here, I'm okay. As soon as there's paranormal "as fact", I say f'ck you Krueger.

29.0% ... the Greek tragedy of the detective is that his pursuit of the truth or justice usually wrecks the lives around him. Usually far more than if he'd just left things alone.

36.0% ... I'm feeling uneasy reading this and I stopped to think why... It's the implied danger for Cork's family here. I just like the mystery and tracking down the villain, not he bits where the Hero's family are at risk.

52.0% ...
"He looked at his hands. Big hands. How useless a man’s hands were, he thought, when it came to fixing the important things."

Bertolt

and I'm glad. This is good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 9 March 2016

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The five star reviews are so obviously written by friends of the author/agent/publisher that I almost didn't buy this - but in the end I did, and I'm glad. This is good. It is palpably a first novel, with a first novel's limitations (too contained in characters, setting and action) but the writing is good, a cut above, the characters well defined and interesting, and there is enough story. Nice sense of place, too. You'll know who dunnit first time you meet them, but that's okay, as the story will carry you through.

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Elaine Tomasso

A good start

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Iron Lake is a wonderfully written mixture of crime, Cork's troubled family life and Native American legend and mysticism. As a crime novel I found the first half quite slow with not much happening but I found the descriptions of the landscape and Native American legend very evocative and intriguing. The second half with the action and denouement was, maybe, a bit obvious but satisfying none the less as it all came together in the cold, snow and ice which became a character in the novel. I thought the character of Cork O'Connor was well drawn, not a superhero but a flawed man doing his best in difficult circumstances but I felt the other characters were less well defined and some were almost caricatures. Still, there is plenty to build on and I would like to read more in the series.

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