On the streets of Aurora, which were banked with plowed snow, folks greeted him in a neighborly way. The sun was a melt of yellow in an aster blue sky. It was January, and there was a bracing chill in the air outside the Tamarack County Sheriff’s Department. “Care to take a victory lap around town?” the deputy said, then added with a grin, “Sheriff.” They’d worked alongside one another for years. He was tall, laconic, and nearly a decade Cork’s senior. Wearing the badge his father had worn, he felt the heavy responsibility of measuring up to a man who’d given his life in the line of duty and, in doing so, had left his son with a hard road map to follow into his own manhood.ĭeputy Ed Larson appeared in the doorway. It came to him with a sense of satisfaction but also with a profound sense of burden. The old Mide had sat erect and expressionless, but his presence-and Sam’s-in that place where the Anishinaabeg had sought but seldom received justice spoke to the hope they now held.Ĭork felt the solemnity of the moment. Sam Winter Moon had come, and Cork had been especially pleased to see Henry Meloux at the back of the courtroom. His wife, Jo, had been there, along with his three young children and his sister-in-law, Rose. He wore the khaki uniform he’d ironed himself for the swearing-in ceremony, which had been held that morning in the county courthouse a block away. The desk, clear at the moment of all but a morning paper, a ceramic mug that held pens rather than coffee, and a framed family photograph, was a mosaic of scars and cigarette burns, the legacy of his father and the other men who’d sat behind that desk before Cork. On his first day as the newly sworn-in sheriff of Tamarack County, Minnesota, Cork O’Connor seated himself behind the desk that came with the badge. In this “brilliant achievement, and one every crime reader and writer needs to celebrate” (Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author), beloved novelist William Kent Krueger shows that some mysteries can be solved even as others surpass our understanding. Together, father and son face the ultimate test of choosing between what their heads tell them is true and what their hearts know is right. In the shadow of his father’s official investigation, Cork begins to look for answers on his own. But when Cork stumbles upon the body of a man he revered hanging from a tree in an abandoned logging camp, it is the first in a series of events that will cause him to question everything he took for granted about his hometown, his family, and himself.Ĭork’s father, Liam O’Connor, is Aurora’s sheriff and it is his job to confirm that the man’s death was the result of suicide, as all the evidence suggests. In the summer of 1963, it is the whole world to twelve-year-old Cork O’Connor, its rhythms as familiar as his own heartbeat. government’s most intensely guarded secrets-an undisclosed military facility that dates back to the Cold War and holds the key to something far more sinister: a hidden group willing to compromise the very safety and security of America itself.An instant New York Times bestseller, this prequel to the acclaimed Cork O’Connor series is “a pitch perfect, richly imagined story that is both an edge-of-your-seat thriller and an evocative, emotionally charged coming-of-age tale” ( Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author) about fathers and sons, small-town conflicts, and the events that shape our lives forever.Īurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of Minnesota’s Iron Lake. Two years ago, Nola saved Zig’s life-so he knows better than most that she’s as volatile and dangerous as a bolt of lightning.įollowing Nola’s trail, he uncovers one of the U.S. That telling detail leads him to Mint’s former top-secret military unit and his connection to artist Nola Brown. While working on Mint’s body before his funeral, mortician “Zig” Zigarowski discovers something he was never meant to see. Mint’s been hiding criminal secrets none of them could have imagined. But when he’s killed while trying to stop a robbery in his own home, his family is shattered-and then shocked when the other shoe drops. Sure, he’s led a charmed life-he’s got a beautiful wife, two impressive kids, and a successful military career. Zig and Nola are back-in the hugely entertaining, highly anticipated follow-up to Brad Meltzer’s #1 New York Times bestselling thriller The Escape Artist.Īrchie Mint has a secret. WHAT'S THE ONE SECRET NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT YOU?
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