Purgatory Ridge is the third mystery novel in the Cork O’Connor series by William Kent Krueger.
The gripping story features former sheriff O’Connor joining the case after a heated argument in town turns deadly.
The local Anishinaabe Indian tribe was furious when they discovered that Karl Lindstrom’s lumberyard was pursuing a sacred grove of trees according to the tribe’s legend. When the factory is bombed, killing a man, the tribe is to blame. But O’Connor has another theory.
Cork returned to his family and worked at Sam’s place since he lost his job as sheriff. Things are starting to get better in what used to be O’Connor’s stressful home. Then, from an irony of fate, Jo and Stevie, Cork’s wife and only son, have come to the wrong place, at the wrong time, and the race to save them is a long journey filled with difficult for Cork as his non-law enforcement position is limited. his ability to direct efforts to save them. But everyone is up on this occasion. Good fast reading. Better if you know the characters in the story.
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Purgatory Ridge
- A Cork O’Connor Mystery, Book 3
