Friday, November 1, 2013

Book Review - Tamarack County - William Kent Krueger

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Title:       Tamarack County


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.
William Kent Krueger 
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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