Blood Hollow
A brilliant new installment in the prize-winning Cork O'Connor series -- from the acclaimed author of Boundary Waters and Purgatory Ridge. When the corpse of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Year's Eve, all evidence points to...
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A brilliant new installment in the prize-winning Cork O'Connor series -- from the acclaimed author of Boundary Waters and Purgatory Ridge. When the corpse of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Year's Eve, all evidence points to her boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite Solemn's self-incriminating decision to go into hiding, Cork O'Connor, Aurora, Minnesota's former sheriff, isn't about to hang the crime on a kid he's convinced is innocent. In an uphill battle to clear Solemn's name, Cork encounters no shortage of adversity. Some -- like bigotry and bureaucracy -- he knows all too well. What Cork isn't prepared for is the emergence of a long-held resentment from his own childhood. And when Solemn reappears, claiming to have seen a vision of Jesus Christ in Blood Hollow, the mystery becomes thornier than Cork could ever have anticipated. And that's when the miracles start happening....
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780743445870 (0743445872)
Publish date: July 1st 2005
Publisher: Pocket Star
Pages no: 544
Edition language: English
Series: Cork O'Connor (#4)
I enjoyed this one very much. It moved along at a good clip, and I walked merrily down the garden path following Krueger's red herring, till very close to the end. We also got quite a bit more of O'Corcoran's bicultural background, and Krueger strenuously resisted the temptation - perhaps it wasn't ...