Windigo Island- William Kent Krueger – (Cork O’Connor # 14)
I started reading the Cork O’Connor series from William Kent Krueger back in 2003 when I picked up Purgatory Ridge, Book #3 in the series, at the library. After finishing the book I quickly sought out the first two books in the series and have not missed a book since!! Cork O’ Connor is the former sheriff of Tamarack County, Minnesota, he is part Ojibwe and Irish. He is also the father of Jennie, Annie and Stephen O’Connor and is constantly battling evil in the County and beyond. Cork uses all the forces that he can gather to fight the evil, that includes the powers of his spiritual mentor Henry Meloux. In Windigo Island Cork and Henry battle a Windigo both the mythical and the rel versions! From Goodreads.com….
Cork O’Connor battles vicious villains, both mythical and modern, to rescue a young girl in the latest nail-biting mystery from New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger.
When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper that it was the work of a mythical beast, the Windigo, or a vengeful spirit called Michi Peshu. Such stories have been told by the Ojibwe people for generations, but they don’t solve the mystery of how the girl and her friend, Mariah Arceneaux, disappeared a year ago. At the request of the Arceneaux family, Cork O’Connor, former sheriff turned private investigator, is soon on the case…..Read More
What I love about reading this series or other series for that matter is the development of the characters over the life of the series. The O’Connor family has been through some tough times over the course of the series. Annie has left home to become a nun after a harrowing experience (Red Knife) and Stephen has been shoot and left paralyzed (Tamarack County) and Jennie has become an adoptive mother after rescuing a baby.(Northwest Angle) not to mention the biggest family tragedy of all the happened in Heaven’s Keep – and I won’t but don’t read this book first!! Now as Cork unravels the mystery of what happened to Mariah Arceneaux he is trying to make up for all his past failures to rescue or keep from harm the ones he loves. In Windigo Island Cork is aided in his quest not only by Henry but also by daughter Jennie, whose eyes are opened to the lives of her Ojibwe brothers and sisters and to her own heritage!
I can’t say enough about this series it is one of my favorites and William Kent Krueger just keeps getting better and better! You can probably start anywhere in the series and enjoy the book (except Heaven’s Keep #9) but you may just as well start at the being with Iron Lake and enjoy the full story of Cork O’Connor and his family!!
