Author Recommendation: William Kent Krueger
I just finished reading The River We Remember (2023), the latest novel by William Kent Krueger, and highly recommend his books for your reading list.
This is the list of his books Dolores and I have read.
William Kent Krueger
Standalone Novels
Ordinary Grace (2013)
This Tender Land (2019)
The River We Remember (2023)
Cork O’Connor Mystery Series
Lightning Strike (2021), Cork O’Connor #0
Iron Lake (1998, 2019), Cork O’Connor #1, 20th Anniversary Edition
Boundary Waters (1999), Cork O’Connor #2
Purgatory Ridge (2002), Cork O’Connor #3
Blood Hollow (2004), Cork O’Connor #4
Mercy Falls (2005), Cork O’Connor #5
Copper River (2006), Cork O’Connor #6
Thunder Bay (2007), Cork O’Connor #7
Red Knife (2008), Cork O’Connor #8
Heaven’s Keep (2009), Cork O’Connor #9
Vermilion Drift (2010), Cork O’Connor #10
Northwest Angle (2011), Cork O’Connor #11
Trickster’s Point (2012), Cork O’Connor #12
Tamarack County (2013), Cork O’Connor #13
Windigo Island (2014), Cork O’Connor #14
Manitou Canyon (2016), Cork O’Connor #15
Sulfur Springs (2021), Cork O’Connor #16
Desolation Mountain (2018), Cork O’Connor #17
Fox Creek (2022), Cork O’Connor #18
Click here to reach the website to learn more about the author and his books.
Raised in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, William Kent Krueger briefly attended Stanford University—before being kicked out for radical activities. After that, he logged timber, worked construction, tried his hand at freelance journalism, and eventually ended up researching child development at the University of Minnesota. He’s been married for fifty years to a marvelous woman who is a retired attorney. He makes his home in St. Paul, a city he dearly loves.
Krueger writes a mystery series set in the north woods of Minnesota. His protagonist is Cork O’Connor, the former sheriff of Tamarack County and a man of mixed heritage—part Irish and part Ojibwe. His work has received a number of awards, including the Minnesota Book Award, the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Dilys Award, and the Friends of American Writers Prize. His last eleven novels were all New York Times bestsellers.
Ordinary Grace, his stand-alone novel published in 2013, received the Edgar Award, given by the Mystery Writers of America in recognition for the best novel published in that year. The companion novel, This Tender Land, was published in September 2019 and spent nearly six months on the New York Times bestseller list.
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