Blood Hollow: A Novel (Cork O'Connor Mystery Series) (U)

Tough-as-nails Former Small-town Sheriff Cork O'connor Is Forced Into The Center Of An Eerie Mystery With A Shocking Twist In This Vivid And Realistic (booklist) Anthony Award-winning Novel From Critically Acclaimed Author William Kent Krueger When The Corpse Of A Beautiful High School Student Is Discovered On A Hillside Four Months After Her Disappearance On New Year's Eve, All Evidence Points To Her Boyfriend, Local Bad Boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite Solemn's Self-incriminating Decision To Go Into Hiding, Cork O'connor, Aurora, Minnesota's Former Sheriff, Isn't About To Hang The Crime On A Kid He's Convinced Is Innocent. In An Uphill Battle To Clear Solemn's Name, Cork Encounters No Shortage Of Adversity. Some Like Bigotry And Bureaucracy He Knows All Too Well. What Cork Isn't 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...the New York Timeswriting As A Naturalist, Krueger Draws On Indian Legends To Communicate The Mystery Of The North Woods; As A Humanist, He Looks To The Spirits Of The Ancients To Heal All Wounds. marilyn Stasio