Copper River
Written by William Kent Krueger
Narrated by David Chandler
4/5
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William Kent Krueger
William Kent Krueger is the New York Times bestselling author of The River We Remember, This Tender Land, Ordinary Grace (winner of the Edgar Award for best novel), and the original audio novella The Levee, as well as nineteen acclaimed books in the Cork O’Connor mystery series, including Lightning Strike and Fox Creek. He lives in the Twin Cities with his family. Learn more at WilliamKentKrueger.com.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I enjoyed this Cork O'Conner mystery. He's in hiding at his cousins when he gets pulled into a local mystery. The inclusion of two kids in the story makes it even more appealing than Krueger's normal Cork O'Conner books.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In the effort to escape a hit put on him by a mobster Cork ends with a relative who is a large animal vet. After he has been shot in the leg. She helps him out and he gets to know her son REN and his girlfriend Charlie who is from a shattered home. The story includes an encounter with a cougar and the need to unravel a series of killings of young women from shattered homes. Dina puts in another appearance.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cork O'Connor series is my favourite series right now. Every book is exciting and suspenseful. The characters are realistic, and in each book we get to experience another chapter in Cork O'Connor's life. In this book we pick up right where the last one left off. Cork escapes to a small Michigan town called Bodine. He's got a gunshot wound in his leg from the encounter he had with a gangster back home, and he heads to the home of a cousin that he has lost touch with over the years. Her name is Jewell DuBois, and she's a widow living with her young son, Wren. Jewell is a vet so Cork thinks that she can look after his injury, and he can hide out for a bit from the gangster who has put a $500,000 bounty on his head. Things aren't so quiet in Bodine either. It seems that trouble is following Cork around, and this trouble has nothing to do with the Bounty on his head. Young homeless girls are going missing from the area, and when a young girl's body washes up on the shore of Lake Superior, it opens up the whole can of worms in Bodine. One that has been going on for years in the area. In this book we see Cork's friend Deena who we met in the previous book, and it's lucky that she has followed him to Bodine because Cork and Jewell need Deena's help tracking the killer in the County. The tension ratchets up right until the end of the book, and when the book ended I wanted to open up the next book in the series and continue the story. They are very addictive. This is a great series to listen to on audiobook and David Chandler does a great job of narrating. Highly recommend this series.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Comfortable and secure with his protagonist, William Kent Krueger allows Cork O’Connor to sit on the sidelines for much of this story, allowing previous peripheral characters as well as new ones take the forefront. Listening, observing, guiding and directing, Krueger through O’Connor turns the flashlight on a morally reprehensible social issue that deserves so much more attention than what we enlightened people give it. Another great story with strong and interesting characters and a not so subtle taunt to look inward and find the answers to help the homeless kids of the world.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love this guy!!!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Somehow it's taken me nearly 20 years to discover William Kent Krueger and his protagonist Cork O'Connor. It's a discovery I am extremely delighted over and these mysteries are among some of the best I have ever read.Copper River starts with a young girl fleeing from an pusuer and the book is a dead sprint from there on. Cork is hold up with a wounded leg at a cousins house in U.P. - shot by a rich man who blames him for the death of his sons. While convalescing he stumbles into something entirely different and all of his unique skills are called into action. Keueger is that rare writer with the ability to master dialog, plot, and character development. I can't wait to continue my exploration of his works and invite you to join me.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Copper River is the sixth book in a series featuring Cork O'Connor, sheriff of Tamarack County, Wisconsin. Following events that happened in the prior book, Mercy Falls, we find Cork hiding out at a cabin in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. There's a contract out on him and he's suffering a terrible gunshot wound. Fortunately, his cousin, Jewell, is the local veterinarian and can help patch him up. She and her teenage son, Ren, don't know why he's being pursued, but they know they need to help him. As he begins to recover he's drawn into helping find out why someone seems to be after Ren's best friend, Charlene (Charlie).
I am a huge fan of this series and find the audiobook, narrated by David Chandler, to be particularly good. Cork is a somewhat flawed character but a man of integrity. In this book, his vulnerability shows another side of that character, which I felt made him even more relatable. No one is better at capturing the feel of the upper Midwest the way Krueger can. His books never fail to mesmerize me and I'm really looking forward to my next Cork O'Connor book, Thunder Bay. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Recently wounded in a previous novel, on-the-run ex-sheriff Cork O'Connor seeks shelter from a distant relative, widowed veterinarian, Jewell DuBois, who lives in a remote corner Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Living with her is her 13-year-old son, Ren, who stills blames Cork for the death of his father. Ren has few friends with the exception of his tomboy pal, Charlie. When the two, playing in the woods, believe that they see the corpse of a woman floating down river in Copper River they attempt to discover if this was more than their imagination. However, their investigation draws the attention of a group of men on the river who are interested in ending their search permanently. Barely able to ambulate, Cork and his friend, security expert Dina Willner, must determine if a murder occurred, and, if so identify the the murderers, while not drawing attention to the contract killers seeking Cork or endangering his relatives.Although this is the first book I read in the series, I had no difficulty reading it as a standalone novel. Krueger is skilled in creating an atmosphere with the setting in his novels. This is no exception. I look forward to reading others in this series...possibly beginning with the first novel.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On the run from a rich man who took out a hit on him, Cork O'Connor lands in the U.P. of Michigan staying with his cousin, Jewell, a widowed veterinarian and her son, Ren. When Ren's friend Charlie goes missing after her father's murder, Cork and his new friend Dina are pulled in despite the fact that this is in no way their jurisdiction.The book before this ended on a wicked cliffhanger about the hit, but very little of this story actually addresses that, so it ended up feeling more like an excuse to take Cork out of his normal setting than anything else. Though the Upper Peninsula is an interesting setting, I felt more than a little gypped not to spend any time in Aurora, MN with Cork's family - both Jo and the kids and Henry Meloux the Ojibwe healer and mide. Still worth reading and a compelling mystery with interesting new characters - especially Charlie - just not the strongest for me.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A little bit different in that none of the regular characters, save Cork himself, are in this book. Deena from the last book has reappeared which in my opinion is a good thing. I hope to see Corks family, Jewell and Ren, work their way back into the may story. Things had gotten a little dry with Joe's family back home so it was good to mix it up. I had totally forgotten about the prologue to the story when it hit me in the face later. Who names a dog Snatch? Fast moving plot, lots of twists and turns.Ordering the next in series today.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Krueger continues to deliver in the Corcoran O’Connor series. This one is set away from the usual haunts and characters of the series as Cork hides out from a contract on his head. Anyone who likes mystery/thrillers should enjoy this series.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cork, on the run from a mob boss, ends up wounded at the home of a cousin, a veterinarian the UP of Michigan.. Interesting new characters with a strong assist from Dina enable him to solve a long past local crime. The cast gets stronger but more wide spread. so some challenges for the author to include them in future books.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The next adventure of Irish/Native American sheriff Cork O'Connor finds our hero running from a mafia-like crime boss who has the mistaken idea that Cork has killed his son. Cork is hiding out in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with his long-lost cousin. To protect his wife and kids back home he has not told them where he is. He's wounded, out of touch, and trying desperately to find the bad guy who is responsible for the crime so he can go home, be reinstated as Sheriff, and get his life back to normal.This one was quite different. The normal cast of characters we've come to know and love play only peripheral roles. Here we have a new batch of relatives, stories, and troubles. Cork's bodyguard/sidekick in this escapade is a delightful female Dina, who befriends the cousins particularly a young woman working her way through a very traumatic adolescence. It appears the lovely Miss Dina put in an appearance in one the two previous books that I missed in this series, so I'll definitely be going back to catch up. In this sixth of the series, there seems to be more action, less philosophy of life, but in the end, with the change of scenery and addition of new characters Krueger has freshened and expanded the series and left us still looking forward to the next volume. These are hard to review at length without giving away the plot, something I hate in mystery reviews. Suffice it to say that the Native American lore and the strong and colorful descriptions of a very scenic geography provide a robust basis for the exciting cliff-hangar of a plot. As I said, I need to catch up. I've got one of the two I missed on hold at the library. Readers would probably be better advised to start at the beginning of the series, although enough back-fill is provided to be able to jump in at this point.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The resolution of the mystery begun in the previous book in the series - Mercy Falls - was anticlimactic, to say the least. The primary mystery was good, but I missed Cork's family. Two very strong teenage characters, Ren and Charlie, were introduced, and it would be nice to "see" them again in the series.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Part Irish, part Native-American, Sheriff Cork O'Connor serves the remote territory of Tamarack Couunty, Minnesota. But big trouble is brewing: a powerful man believer O'Conor killed his son. Now there's a price on the sheriff's head, and a bullet in his leg. He finds refuge with his cousin Jewell and her teenage son Ren in their tiny Michigan town. But when Ren and his friends are threatened, O'Connor must rick his cover to find out why.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was another wonderful Cork O'Connor mystery! The novel kept me in suspense the whole way through and I loved every minute of it, but the only downfall I can find with it - is that I didn't like how it was just a continuation of the cliff-hanger from the previous book and hand only slight deviations from it. I loved how the other novels were entities upon themselves, but with this one you needed to read the previous one to understand fully and not so much with the others. I loved it none-the-less and can't wait to get my hands on the next one in the series!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great reading.