When a high school studentâs body is found and her boyfriend goes missing, tough-as-nails former sheriff Cork OâConnor is forced into the center of an eerie mystery with a shocking twist in this âvivid and realisticâ (Booklist), Anthony Award-winning novel from New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger.
When the body of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Yearâs Eve, all evidence points to her boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite Solemnâs self-incriminating decision to go into hiding, Cork OâConnor isnât about to hang the crime on a kid heâs convinced is innocent.
In an uphill battle to clear Solemnâs name, Cork encounters no shortage of adversity. Someâlike bigotry and bureaucracyâhe knows all too well. What Cork isnât 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.