When mayhem descends on a tiny logging town, former sheriff Cork OāConnor is called upon to investigate a murder in this āwonderful page-turnerā (The Denver Post) that āprolongs suspense to the very endā (Publishers Weekly) by Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger.
Not far from Aurora, Minnesota (population 3,752), lies an ancient expanse of great white pines, sacred to the Anishinaabe tribe. When an explosion kills the night watchman at wealthy industrialist Karl Lindstromās nearby lumber mill, itās obvious where suspicion will fall. Former sheriff Cork OāConnor agrees to help investigate, but he has mixed feelings about the case. For one thing, he is part Anishinaabe. For another, his wife, a lawyer, represents the tribe.
Meanwhile, near Lindstromās lakeside home, a reclusive shipwreck survivor and his sidekick are harboring their own resentment of the industrialist. And it soon becomes clear to Cork that danger, both at home and in Aurora, lurks around every cornerā¦