Former small-town sheriff Cork OâConnor leads a desperate search-and-rescue mission into the unforgiving Minnesota wilderness in this âgritty, bloody adventureâ (Publishers Weekly) from critically acclaimed author William Kent Kruegerâs award-winning mystery series.
The Quetico-Superior Wilderness: more than two million acres of forest, white-water rapids, and uncharted islands on the Canadian/American border. Somewhere in the heart of this unforgiving territory, a young woman named Shilohâa country-western singer at the height of her fameâhas disappeared.
Her father arrives in Aurora, Minnesota, to hire Cork OâConnor to find his daughter. Cork joins a search party that includes an ex-con, two FBI agents, and a ten-year-old boy. Others are on Shilohâs trail as wellâmen hired not just to find her, but to kill her.
As the expedition ventures deeper into the wilderness, strangers descend on Aurora, threatening to spill blood on the townâs snowy streets. Meanwhile, out on the Boundary Waters, winter falls hard. Corkâs team of searchers loses contact with civilization, and like the brutal winds of a Minnesota blizzard, deathâviolent and suddenâstalks them.