From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The deftly plotted seventh Cork O'Connor novel represents a return to top form for Anthony-winner Krueger after 2006's disappointing
Copper River. Henry Meloux asks Cork, who's now working as a part-time PI in his hometown of Aurora, Minn., to find a son the aged Ojibwe healer has never met from a relationship with a white woman, Maria Lima, seventy-three winters earlier. Armed with just two clues, a location in Canada and a gold watch with a picture of Maria, O'Connor soon finds the son, a retired mining entrepreneur, but arranging a meeting between son and father proves to be a challenging and surprisingly dangerous task. The book's middle third focuses on Meloux's past: how he became a guide for white men looking for gold in Canada, how he met and fell in love with one of their daughters, and the events that separated the young lovers. Despite the preponderance of back story, the action builds to a violent and satisfying denouement.
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From AudioFile
Fans of this authors Cork OConnor adventures can take heart. This latest installment is more engaging than his last one. Perhaps thats because of narrator Buck Schirner--an old hand who brings a fresh viewpoint to this series. His characters are both forceful and believable. In this story, OConnor, formerly a sheriff, has a private detective license. He is asked by his friend Henry, a medicine man, to find his son--born 73 years earlier, of whom hes recently been having visions. Schirner handles the intriguing Ojiibwe Indian with appropriate mysticism and is especially effective in a dramatic flashback scene. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine--
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