Lightning Strike
Book Feature - Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger
HBL Note: William Kent Kreuger is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller This Tender Land and Ordinary Grace which won the Edgar Award for best novel. He is back with a new novel, LIGHTNING STRIKE, a prequel to the eighteen books in his acclaimed Cork O’Connor series. Booklist described William Kent Krueger’s writing style as a "punch-to-the-gut blend of detective story and investigative fiction.” Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger
From the publisher:
Aurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of Minnesota’s Iron Lake. 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. 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.’
Cork’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 shadow of his father’s official investigation, Cork begins to look for answers on his own. 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 this masterful story of a young man and a town on the cusp of change, beloved novelist William Kent Krueger shows that some mysteries can be solved even as others surpass our understanding.
