Purgatory Ridge: A Novel (Cork O'Connor Mystery Series)

A. fast moving yarn that will grab your attention. I am sure that you need to read this if you are to stick with the series which I am.

Kept me rivoted through the whole book. Suspense with lots of twists & turns. Going to read the whole series.

Loving Cork, his family and recurrent characters, more and more with each new story. Another beautifully written gritty and gripping story.

William Kent Krueger is always a good read and always an unexpected twist. This one was a surprise and only was sad when one character did not make it. Definitely will suggest this read to family and friends. Can't wait to read the next book!

Cork is back with his family and working at sam's place since he lost his position as sheriff. Things are beginning to look better in what had been the tense O'Connor home. Then from a quirk of fate, Jo and Stevie, Cork's wife and his only son, are in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the race -to save them is one long frustrating journey for Cork as his non-law enforcement position limits his ability to direct the effort to save them . But everyone rises to the occasion. Good fast read. Better if you know the characters from the series.

I am a great fan of WKK's Cork O'Connor novels. Characteristically, they involve great characters, interesting mysteries, Ojibwe lore and northwoods atmospherics. In an ethos that is both vast (the lakes, woods, etc.) and small and enclosed (a Minnesota town, the Ojibwe reservation nearby) WKK takes his compromised but engaging hero, who is half white and half Ojibwe into the darkness of the past and into the darkness of the human soul to probe the mysteries that await him there.Purgatory Ridge is different. While the other elements of a WKK story are all in place here, this book is much more of a suspense/thriller than a mystery or crime novel. There are mysteries, of course, but the novel's two plots (an explosion at a lumber mill which is threatening to harvest a stand of pines that are sacred to the Ojibwe; the broodings of a half Ojibwe half white man whose brother was lost in a ship which collapsed in a storm on Lake Superior) come together in an elaborate kidnap/murder plot which threatens the families of the industrialist whose property has been destroyed and, as well, the wife and son of Cork O'Connor.Who are the kidnappers? And is there an additional individual behind the kidnap plot? The suspense is protracted, the saving of the kidnappees an apparent impossibility. There are knives, broken glass, duct tape and blood aplenty and the ending is a sixty page crescendo of death, revenge, and--the reader hopes--last-minute escapes.The result is one of the very best of the WKK novels, a novel that is faster in its pace and more urgent in its plotting than the other stories in the series. Enjoy.

Great writer, several story lines intertwined that eventually came together, I could not guess the end, until I read it.

This book arrived on time and condition was accurately described.

A fairly drawn-out & tedious read, not as good as previous offerings from this author. I found the frequent references to native American wisdom irritating & the story line implausible. In fact, the final twist was preposterous - and entirely unnecessary, adding nothing at all to the outcome.

JUST READ PURGATORY RIDGE AND LOVED IT. GREAT CHARACTERS AND VERY INTERESTING. NEVER READ WKK BEFORE BUTL WILL BE READING A LOT MORE NOW.

I'm really loving this series. The author really brings the charscters and setting to life.

Good as usual.. plenty of suspense!

Fantastic book.