Cork O'Connor returns in the latest of William Kent Krueger's long-running series, with a brutal murder investigation that will captivate you and take you back in time with the O'Connor family. It is a beautifully written, intriguing story that will keep you locked in until it's over. A cold case from years ago is revitalized, sending Cork O'Connor back down memory lane, as he tries to uncover a decades-old murder case, when Axel Boshey was imprisoned for the murder of his girlfriend.
Apostle's Cove jumps back and forth to a handful of decades earlier, when Cork O'Connor is the newly elected sheriff of Tamarack County. During this time, he picks up the Boshey case, and although the case gets closed, O'Connor has always felt a nagging feeling that something wasn't right. In present time, his son Stephen takes up Boshey's incarceration, as it seems like a 't' was left uncrossed and an 'i' left undotted.
With this novel stepping back into the past, we get to be reunited with some of the others in the O'Connor universe that have since left us. It was beautiful seeing them again. One of the best parts of a William Kent Krueger novel is the way it connects you to these characters. After 21 books in Aurora and Tamarack County, you feel very connected to the people of this county, and Kent knows how to make you feel like you know each and every one of them. It makes you yearn when they're gone, and the novel feels so real, almost like you could reach out and touch them.
An expertly written novel, Apostle's Cove is poetic in its prose, each word like a kiss from the pen. One of the best times of year is when a new O'Connor book is released, and this one will not disappoint.
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