William Kent Krueger 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 the First Lady returns to Minnesota after her father is hurt, Secret Service agent Bo Thorsen suspects the accident was no accident. His protection detail turns into a fast-moving conspiracy with assassins closing in.

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.

In this eerie short story, a reporter revisits the disappearance of six young men in a small Midwestern town. The deeper he digs into the cold case, the stranger and darker the truth becomes.

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.

This companion volume gathers excerpts from the Cork O'Connor novels and offers background on Cork, the series, and the Minnesota Northwoods that shape the books. It's a useful guide for new readers and longtime fans alike.

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.

In the summer of 1961, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum watches death visit his small Minnesota town again and again. As tragedy strikes his family, he is pushed out of childhood and into a world of secrets and loss.

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 1932, orphan brothers Odie and Albert flee a brutal school with their friends Mose and Emmy. Their canoe journey downriver becomes a search for home, freedom, and a kinder place in a hard country.

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.

Henry Meloux foresees his own death just as armed men begin hunting a mysterious woman in the Northwoods. Cork races through the Boundary Waters to protect Rainy, the stranger, and the old healer everyone wants to find.

During the catastrophic Mississippi flood of 1927, four men row into deadly water to rescue a stranded family. The mission becomes a tense test of courage, selfishness, and what survival will really cost.

In 1958, the body of powerful landowner Jimmy Quinn turns up in the Alabaster River, and old resentments surge through Jewel, Minnesota. Sheriff Brody Dern investigates as war scars, prejudice, and buried secrets threaten to split the town.

While Minnesota obsesses over a missing politician's daughter, Cork's grandson finds the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman. Cork and the new tribal police uncover a link between the cases, and a killer close enough to strike again.

Stephen asks Cork to reopen an old murder case that may have sent an innocent Ojibwe man to prison. As Cork digs back into Tamarack County's past, fresh deaths suggest someone will kill to keep the truth buried.

Before a family trip into the Boundary Waters, Cork is troubled by dark visions and the disappearance of a friend. His search pulls him toward violent criminals, a hidden stash, and choices that test the limits of justice.