When a high school studentās body is found and her boyfriend goes missing, tough-as-nails former sheriff Cork OāConnor is forced into the center of an eerie mystery with a shocking twist in this āvivid and realisticā (Booklist), Anthony Award-winning novel from New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger.
When the body of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Yearās Eve, all evidence points to her boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite Solemnās self-incriminating decision to go into hiding, Cork OāConnor isnāt about to hang the crime on a kid heās convinced is innocent.
In an uphill battle to clear Solemnās name, Cork encounters no shortage of adversity. Someālike bigotry and bureaucracyāhe knows all too well. What Cork isnāt prepared for is the emergence of a long-held resentment from his own childhood. And when Solemn reappears, claiming to have seen a vision of Jesus Christ in Blood Hollow, the mystery becomes thornier than Cork could ever have anticipated. And that's when the miracles start happening.