I have never heard of William Kent Krueger or his Cork O’Connor Mysteries.  I grabbed this book because I saw the title and picked it up thinking, Thunder Bay?  The Thunder Bay up the North Shore?  Yep the one and only.  Well, how could I not enjoy this book, set in the Iron Range and the North Shore of Minnesota and Ontario.  It was fun to hear the names of towns I haven’t heard for so long, Aurora, Brandywine, Tofte, Grand Marias, and others.  Readers were treated to a bit of Thunder Bay history a new name for two old towns Port Arthur and Fort William.

Aside from the sentimental attraction I had for the setting of this story, I really enjoyed this book.  I found myself thinking about the story line when I wasn’t reading and making time to get back to the book to find out the rest of the story. 

Krueger did a great job capturing the personality of Northern Minnesotans and Chippewa/Ojibwa Indians. It was very real and not affected. I will be going back and catching up on the other Cork O’Connor mysteries.  Ah yes that does bring up a point, a better name would have been, Lars Larson or Eric Nelson, Sven Johannsen, etc., many more Scandinavians then Irish up North.  At least Cork’s wife Jo is Scandinavian.