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Laddar... Vermilion Driftav William Kent Krueger
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. A murder mystery set in Aurora and related to an old Iron Mine and one of its passages: the vermilion drift. Initially he is hired to look for the missing sister of the mine’s owner. He is also working for the mine trying to see who. Is behind some threatening graffiti related to a plan to store nuclear waste in the mine. Cork discovers two things as he begins his investigation: 1) there is a secret entrance to the mine coming from an abandoned shaft, and that shaft contains several bodies. Most are decades old but one is the woman who he had been hired to find. Working as a consultant to the sherif Cork finds himself drawn into the hunt for the killers and uncertainty about what role his father may have played in the cold case murders. Through hard work, knowledge of his community, intuition and finally the aid of his Mento, Henry, the shaman, he comes to understand both the contemporary murder and the much older murders. Seriously continue to love this series. I love how the main character, Corcoran O'Connor, continues to age and grow. This was a bit of a sad one in many ways. Corc is coming off of a great tragedy that he is just now learning to deal with. Plus old tragedy rears its head. The mystery as always is well thought out and interesting. I hope things look up for Corc soon. Much better than Heaven's Keep, this novel is back to high quality mystery in the wilds. A local mine is facing protesters over the possibility of becoming a storage site for nuclear waster. While invesigating graffiti, Cork O'Connor discovers a cache of dead bodies from many ears in the past and he has to confront the stark realities of his childhood and relationship with his parents and long time friends, Sam Winter Moon and Henry Meloux, in determining justice. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
Some nights, Corcoran O'Connor dreams his father's death. William Kent Krueger's gripping tale of suspense begins with a recurring nightmare, a gun, and a wound in the earth so deep and horrific that it has a name: Vermilion Drift. When the Department of Energy puts an underground iron mine on its short list of potential sites for storage of nuclear waste, a barrage of protest erupts in Tamarack County, Minnesota, and Cork is hired as a security consultant. Deep in the mine during his first day on the job, Cork stumbles across a secret room that contains the remains of six murder victims. Five appear to be nearly half a century old-connected to what the media once dubbed "The Vanishings," a series of unsolved disappearances in the summer of 1964, when Cork's father was sheriff in Tamarack County. But the sixth has been dead less than a week. What's worse, two of the bodies-including the most recent victim-were killed using Cork's own gun, one handed down to him from his father. As Cork searches for answers, he must dig into his own past and that of his father, a well-respected man who harbored a ghastly truth. Time is running out, however. New threats surface, and unless Cork can unravel the tangled thread of clues quickly, more death is sure to come. Vermilion Drift is a powerful novel, filled with all the mystery and suspense for which Krueger has won so many awards. A poignant portrayal of the complexities of family life, it's also a sobering reminder that even those closest to our hearts can house the darkest-and deadliest-of secrets. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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A lot of things are happening in this book, and connections seem unlikely at first. There are missing children from many years ago, missing grownups, and a missing woman from the present. Cork is hired to find the missing woman from the present, and finds her fairly early, along with some of the older ones. The only connection is they are all found in the same place, but then an unusual fact comes to light that makes Cork think there is some connection.
While he's trying to sort this all out, he has dreams that he thinks might be important, and finally, with Henry's help, he learns the meaning of his dreams, and a lot about his past as a boy.
It's an interesting mystery, and the solution is not obvious at all. So, just read, enjoy, and pay attention. It was an enjoyable ride, as are all of his books (in my opinion, of course).
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