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.
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