-Henry Meloux, advice to Cork, from the novel
Well, check off book 15 in the Cork O'Connor series. My followers know I am a huge fan! This one gets a 5 rating, as have almost all the others. After a couple of 500+ page tomes, this one was a refreshing, face-paced mystery, just over 300 pages. Krueger has a beautiful writing style, especially when describing the natural landscape of Minnesota and surrounding lands. Short chapters and cliffhangers make these novels true page turners. I've gotten to know and love Cork O'Connor and his family. Have gotten to experience his 3 children growing up while Cork and family have gone through many rough and frightening times. I will be so sad when and if Krueger ends the series.
In this O'Connor adventure, Cork, former sheriff and now private investigator, is hired by Lindsay and Trevor Harris, grown grandchildren of John Harris, who has mysteriously disappeared in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. After a massive search has turned up nothing, they are still concerned that their grandfather is out there and in trouble.
Without spoiling the plot, I will just say that Cork and Lindsay, who accompanies him, disappear as well and end up in grave danger. Perpetrators are a Native terrorist group called the Warrior Cohort who seem to stop at nothing to get their point across to "white folks" (developers) who seek to destroy land they hold sacred.
Helping in the search for Cork and Lindsay are several who care about Cork, including his son Stephen, Daniel (future son-in-law), Rainy Bisonette and Rainy's grandfather, Henry Meloux, the aged and wise Mide, quoted above and one of my favorite characters.
I will just say I loved the ending with its implication of sweet things to come. On to #16, Sulfur Springs!
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