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Also by William Kent Krueger:

The River We Remember, September 2024
Paperback / e-Book
The River We Remember, September 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Fox Creek, June 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Fox Creek, September 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Lightning Strike, July 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
Lightning Strike, September 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Iron Lake, February 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Desolation Mountain, September 2018
Hardcover
Northwest Angle, September 2011
Hardcover
Vermilion Drift, September 2010
Hardcover
Thunder Bay: A Novel, August 2009
Paperback
Blood Hollow, August 2009
Paperback
Red Knife, September 2008
Hardcover
Thunder Bay, August 2007
Hardcover
Copper River, July 2007
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Copper River, August 2006
Hardcover

Copper River
William Kent Krueger

A Cork O'Connor Mystery
Atria
August 2006
Featuring: Cork O'Connor
320 pages
ISBN: 0743278402
Hardcover
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Mystery Police Procedural

The sixth novel in William Kent Krueger's award-winning suspense series finds Cork O'Connor running for his life -- straight into a murderous conspiracy involving teenage runaways.

The latest in the series finds the sheriff running for his life from professional hit men who have already put a bullet through his leg. Desperate, he finds sanctuary outside a small town called Bodine on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in an old resort owned by his cousin, Jewell DuBois. Though Jewell, a bitter widow whose husband may have been killed by cops, keeps Cork at arm's length, her 14-year-old son, Ren, is looking for a friend. But being a father figure to Ren will prove more difficult than Cork could possibly imagine.

When the body of a young girl surfaces along the banks of the Copper River and another teenager vanishes, Cork must choose between helping to solve these deadly mysteries and thwarting the hit men who draw closer to him with every hour. Recklessly, he turns from his own worries and focuses on tracking the conspiracy of killers before Ren and his best friend, Charlie, fall victim. It's an error -- one a good man might make -- but as the contract killers who are hunting him close in, Cork realizes too late that it may be the last mistake he'll ever make.

The trail left by the dead girl eventually leads to a shelter for homeless youth and into the grim reality of children lost and abandoned, who become easy prey for the perverted appetites of human predators. All small towns have buried secrets but, as Cork soon learns, this one has more than its share.

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