Tamarack County

Cork O'Connor, Book 13

De: William Kent Krueger

Narrado por: David Chandler

Duración: 10 h y 14 m

Resumen del Editor

William Kent Krueger is a New York Times best-selling author whose popular Cork O’Connor mysteries display an "intimate knowledge of Minnesota’s northern reaches and respect for Native American life" (Publishers Weekly). In Tamarack County, former sheriff Cork O'Connor investigates the disappearance of a retired judge’s wife - and discovers the bloody aftermath of a 20-year-old crime.

©2013 William Kent Krueger (P)2013 Recorded Books

Great Story

A very entertaining book with some real twists and great characters. Kept my attention the whole way through

Another fabulous Cork O’Connor

I loved everything about the book. The only thing I thought was a little funny was when the narrator try to talk like the character with a speech impediment. I realize there was a reason for it, but it made me giggle.

Missed 5 stars because of narration.

Another fabulous chapter in the O’Connor Clan’s lives.
The storyline was solid, I thought, and the writing done very well. The dialogue is written realistically, just as people speak.
The problem is the narrator. He speaks so slowly, and seems to try and make every sentence a thing of great substance. This is especially true at the end of chapters.
If the narration is sped up, it’s tolerable. But nothing makes the dialogue tolerable from the characters. As I said, the dialogue is written with realism, but the narrator makes simple sentences by the characters sound snarky, and juvenile.
Seriously poor.
And pug-leeze! The word guillotine is NOT pronounced “gill a tine”, it’s pronounced “Geyatine”!
Hearing a common word like this while listening is head-shakingly disruptive. This is just one shocking example, there are many more. And when commonplace Spanish words are in the story, pronunciation butchery commences.
It would serve the author well to find another narrator, or at least insist that a producer edits the narration before publishing.

Another spellbinding story by William Kruger

My Expectations were wonderfully met by the entangled storylines that converged satisfactorily. I like the way Mr. Krugerrand characters are believable. Just good honest folks.

Great read!

I really enjoyed this book, but then again I've enjoyed every book I've read by William Kent Krueger.
Living here in northern Minnesota, the stories really come to life and I can picture in my mind the scenery and plots. What I really love is the suspenseful plotlines...they always leave me guessing and wanting more.
This book and its scenes remind me of Lake Vermilion and the drive to Duluth. The characters remind me of people I have met and could therefore get a picture in my mind of all that was taking place. Such wonderful writing! I look forward to starting the next book in the Cork O'Connor series!

This was a really good one!

I loved the story, the continued character development and the narration!! Thank you to the author!

Nothin better

Another great William Kent Krueger O’Conner series book! They never disappoint for a great read!

Loved it

I like all of Krueger's Cork books for probably the same reason so many others do -- lots of nature - and living WITHIN and WITH nature, not just looking at it. I also like the American Indian presence, showing appreciation and respect for that culture. For me, this is one of Krueger's best bcz plot and dynamic tension are there but the STORY isn't OVERRUN with run, chase, scare as the whole plot and action -- which Krueger does in several other of the Cork books. And there are, I think, more of the wisdom gems in this one - though unfortunately the narrator reads them in a way that makes them sound pompous and laughable but which, if spoken simply and quietly as the medicine man would, they would sound as they are - quiet deep truth. Fortunately, I can hear through this affected intonation (smile).

Another great story

Everyone is better than the last. David Chandler is a wonderful narrator. And WKK is a great storyteller!

Tense, heart-stopping mystery

Evelyn Carter was doing some last minute Christmas shopping when a snowstorm descended on Tamarack County. Her car was found abandoned on a desolate road. Search and rescue teams found no trace of her. Her cantankerous husband, a retired judge, is badgering the sheriff while former lawman Cork O’Connor, now private investigator, finds some suspicious items in his home.

Cork’s family is restless at his home on Gooseberry Lane. Daughter Anne returns home for Christmas greatly troubled. She has decided to not follow the life path she’d been training for in joining a progressive order of nuns. Son Stephen is in love with a full-blood Ojibwe girl, Marlee Daychild. When he arrives at her home to pick her up for a movie, her Uncle Ray’s dog in her care is brutally killed. Baby Waboo, daughter Jenny’s son, has a nightmare about monsters coming for him.

Medicine man Henry Meloux is spending the winter in Thunder Bay with his son, but he is also troubled by a recurring vision of evil surrounding the O’Connor household. Henry’s niece Rainy has gone to Arizona to be with her son, battling addiction again, leaving Cork on his own and uncertain about their future.

While Marlee is driving home with Stephen, they are forced off the road and nearly drown. Marlee’s Uncle Ray is due out of prison within days so she and her mother go to his apartment to clean only to find disturbing signs of a break in. In trying to find connections between events, Cork recalls a murder from twenty years ago. A man had confessed, yet evidence discovered later showed he may not have been guilty. Unfortunately, Judge Carter had given him the maximum 40-year sentence. It was Marlee’s Uncle Ray Bluejay Wakemup who brought forth the new evidence. And it had been Cork as deputy on the case.

What follows are tense, heart-stopping revelations which lead to devastating actions. Each of the O’Connors is involved in dangerous ways. Even Henry Meloux returns from Thunder Bay, so greatly troubled by visions of evil. Just when the action appeared to have resolved, it began anew with dreadful consequences. Each O’Connor – Cork, Stephen, Anne, and Jenny – is faced with decisions that will change their lives. It will take all of their courage and determination to find their way out of this adventure.

Krueger continues to treat us to finely crafted mysteries. Each deftly told adventure also deals with long-term effects and moral dilemmas. Cork O’Connor is still battling his thoughts on violence, especially gun violence, as he has been over the past several entries in this excellent series. Narrator David Chandler continues to present us with life in Aurora, Minnesota with all its flaws and beauty. I am very much looking forward to learning what time and healing bring to the O’Connors and Aurora.