My thoughts
While I still have a ways to go with this series this can be read without reading the previous nineteen books. I do still look forward to each of them though.
From Author's Notes: "I have no Native blood running through my veins. I'm aware every time I sit down to write a novel in my Cork O'Connor series that I'm intruding on a culture that is not my own. If I err in my evocation of the Anishinaabeg, it's not intentional and, I hope not detrimental. My wish is that in writing stories like this one, I may in some small way open the hearts and minds of readers to the enormous struggles our Native brothers and sisters face every day."
Be sure and read the Author's notes. It's always good and in this case informing.
This is book twenty of the Cork O'Connor series by one of my very favorite authors. I own in some form every book this author has written and will read them as I can.
This is the story of a group. A family. What happens when a Native girl goes missing and what happens when a white girl goes missing are so different. Seems like an all out investigation is done when it's a rich white girl. Not so much with a poor girl and even less for Native girls. Isn't that sad. Considering we as white people immigrated to this country and then took the land away from the Native people. Very sad indeed.
This book is well written and so heartfelt. When two bodies are found Cork O'Connor and others start investigating. One is a rich white girl and one a Native girl. After the finding of the white child the cases are pretty much closed from the town's cops. But the Native police carry on. They don't stop until they get closure. Until some kind of justice is served. Until they identify the young girl.
Cork's daughter Anne has come home with some sad news. She wants to wait until after her nephew's wedding to share the news. There is a lot going on in this book and a few characters. But I had no problem following them all. I shed lots of tears reading this, especially the ending. I learned a few things also and a few new words.
This book is excellent. Heartfelt and true to life. True to the time period also. From trackers to cell phones. To the prejudices that are still strong against Native Americans. To the descriptions of the areas. It's just a good story even though it's about a bit of sadness. Well quite a bit of sadness but also much happiness. A good book about a very important thing going on in this country right now.
Thank you #NetGalley and #Atria for this ARC. This is my true thoughts about this book.
Five stars.
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A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twentieth book in the New York Times bestselling series from William Kent Krueger, “a master storyteller at the top of his game” (Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
The disappearance of a local politician’s teenaged daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O’Connor’s grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman—but nobody seems that interested. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police. As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this mysterious and grim discovery, they uncover a connection to the missing teenager. And soon, it’s clear that Cork’s grandson is in danger of being the killer’s next victim.
The disappearance of a local politician’s teenaged daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O’Connor’s grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman—but nobody seems that interested. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police. As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this mysterious and grim discovery, they uncover a connection to the missing teenager. And soon, it’s clear that Cork’s grandson is in danger of being the killer’s next victim.
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