Cork O'Connor Books in Order

Cork O'Connor, former sheriff of Aurora, is reeling from family and job troubles when a judge is murdered and a young boy disappears. The case pulls him into corruption, buried loyalties, and secrets close to home.

Hired to find a missing country singer, Cork leads a rough search into the frozen Minnesota wilderness. As blizzards close in and killers close ranks, the rescue turns into a fight for survival.

An explosion at a lumber mill near land sacred to the Ojibwe sets Aurora on edge. Cork investigates a murder caught up in old resentments, environmental conflict, and danger that reaches into his own life.

When a teenage girl's body is found and her boyfriend vanishes, Cork is drawn into a tense small-town mystery. Faith, prejudice, and family secrets make the truth far harder, and stranger, than it first appears.

Back as sheriff, Cork survives sniper fire and then investigates a businessman found above the roaring falls. The case tangles with casino politics, old desire, and personal wounds that threaten his marriage.

Wounded and on the run from hired killers, Cork hides out in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. There he finds a murdered girl and a missing teenager, and chooses to hunt a predator ring instead of saving himself.

Henry Meloux asks Cork to find the son he fathered long ago, opening a case rooted in old love and bitterness. The search leads to Canada, where past betrayals turn deadly in the present.

A young woman's drug death sparks a racial showdown in Tamarack County, and Cork lands between furious factions. As executions and retaliation loom, he races to stop a war that could destroy his community.

Months after Jo's plane vanishes in the Wyoming mountains, Cork gets a sliver of evidence that the crash story was false. His search for her leads into corruption, hired violence, and one last desperate hope.

While working security at a disputed mine site, Cork discovers a hidden chamber filled with bodies. One recent victim was shot with Cork's own gun, forcing him back into a 1964 mystery tied to his father.

A storm strands Cork and his family near the remote Northwest Angle, where he finds a murdered girl and an abandoned baby. To protect them both, he must uncover who the child belongs to and why killers want him.

When politician and old friend Jubal Little dies with one of Cork's arrows in his chest, Cork becomes the obvious suspect. Clearing his name means revisiting a friendship shaped by ambition, love, and betrayal.

A vanished judge's wife, a brutal killing, and an attack on Cork's son point to something festering in Tamarack County. Cork is forced back to a decades-old case that may have sent the wrong man to prison.

A dead Ojibwe girl and a missing teenager draw Cork to a Lake Superior reservation haunted by myth and fear. What begins as folklore-laced mystery opens into a grim trail of trafficking and violence.

Cork agrees to keep searching for a missing camper in the Boundary Waters just days before his daughter's wedding. When Cork himself disappears, his family heads into the wilderness to learn who took him, and why.

After Rainy's son calls to confess a killing and then disappears, Cork and Rainy head to southern Arizona. Their search runs straight into cartel territory, border violence, and a town where trusting the wrong person can get you killed.

Stephen O'Connor foresees disaster shortly before a plane crash kills a senator and devastates a remote reservation mountain. As first responders vanish, Cork and Stephen dig into a case shadowed by politics, secrecy, and grief.

In 1963, twelve-year-old Cork finds a dead man hanging in an abandoned logging camp. While his sheriff father sees suicide, Cork starts asking questions that shake his trust in Aurora and in the adults around him.