Title: Tamarack County
Author: WilliamKent Kruger
Review: Another
great book from this author. I picked it
up after I had surgery and read it every waking moment until the end. I live in Minnesota and I love the way the
author captures life here, the people, the weather, the beauty and yet the
dangers of life also.
Blizzards are a fact of life in rural Minnesota and they can isolate a
community for days at a time. Everyone
is digging out or hunkering down, too busy to try and get to the next community
until theirs is safe. I liked the way he
isolated the town and then added the mystery to be solved.
I love this author and the characters and look forward to every one of
his books. I don’t know if I will ever
be bored of this author and his Minnesota stories.
Thanks Eileen for this review.
Publisher: Published August 20th 2013 by
Atria Books
ISBN: 9781451645781
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 320
Quick Review: 5 stars (out of 5)
Why I Read It:
I love this author.
Where I Obtained the Book:
Sent for review from the publisher.
Synopsis:
Violence and murder blow into Minnesota’s sleepy Tamarack County as
ex-sheriff Cork O’Connor returns in the latest installment of William Kent
Krueger’s New York Times bestselling series.
As a blizzard swells just days before Christmas, the car belonging to
the wife of a retired local judge is discovered abandoned on a rural road in
Tamarack County. After days of fruitless effort, the search-and-rescue team has
little hope that she’ll be found alive, if at all. Cork O’Connor, former
sheriff and now private investigator, is part of that team.
Early on, Cork notices small things about the woman’s disappearance
that disturb him. But when the beloved pet dog of a friend is brutally killed
and beheaded, he begins to see a startling pattern in these and other recent
dark occurrences in the area. After his own son comes close to peril, Cork
understands that someone is spinning a deadly web in Tamarack County. At the
center is a murder more than twenty years old, for which an innocent man may
have been convicted. Cork remembers the case only too well. He was the deputy
in charge of the investigation that sent the man to prison.
With the darkest days of the year at hand, the storms of winter
continue to isolate Tamarack County. Somewhere behind the blind of all that
darkness and drifting snow, a vengeful force is at work. And Cork has only
hours to stop it before his family and his friends pay the ultimate price for
the sins of others.
With complex plot twists, rich characters, and a vivid setting,
Tamarack County is a relentlessly fast-paced novel that will chill, thrill, and
shock you.
Author Biography: William Kent Krueger is a multi award-winning
American author and crime writer, best known for his Cork O'Connor series of
books, which is mainly set in Minnesota. USA. In 2005 and 2006, he won back to
back Anthony Awards for best novel - a feat only matched by one other writer
since the award's inception.
William Kent Krueger has stated that he dates his desire to be a writer
back to the third grade, when a story he wrote called The Walking Dictionary
was so well received by teachers and parents that he was inspired by their
praise. Throughout an early life that saw him logging timber, digging ditches,
working in construction, and being published as a freelance journalist, he
never stopped writing.
He attended Stanford University but his academic path was cut short
when he came into conflict with the university's administration during student
protests of spring 1970.
He wrote short stories and sketches for many years, but it was not
until the age of 40 that he finished the manuscript of his first novel, Iron
Lake. A book which went on to win the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, the
Barry Award for Best First Novel, the Minnesota Book Award, and the
Loft-McKnight Fiction Award.
William Kent Krueger lives with his wife and family in St Paul,
Minnesota.
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