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William Kent Krueger is an American Crime writer that has won numerous awards for his Cork O’Connor novels. The author’s love for writing manifested early. By the time Krueger was in third grade, he knew that writing was the career of his dreams. And by this age, he was already writing stories that were drawing interest and praise from his friends, parents, and teachers.
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Order of Cork O'Connor Series
| # | Read | Title | Published | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iron Lake | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
| 2 | Boundary Waters | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
| 3 | Purgatory Ridge | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
| 4 | Blood Hollow | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
| 5 | Mercy Falls | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
| 6 | Copper River | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
| 7 | Thunder Bay | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
| 8 | Red Knife | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
| 9 | Heaven's Keep | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
| 10 | Vermilion Drift | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 11 | Northwest Angle | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
| 12 | Trickster's Point | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
| 13 | Tamarack County | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
| 14 | Windigo Island | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
| 15 | Manitou Canyon | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
| 16 | Sulfur Springs | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
| 17 | Desolation Mountain | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
| 18 | Lightning Strike | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
| 19 | Fox Creek | 2022 | Description / Buy | |
| 20 | Spirit Crossing | 2024 | Description / Buy |
Order of Cork O'Connor Companion Series
| # | Read | Title | Published | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The World of Cork O'Connor | 2016 | Description / Buy |
Order of William Kent Krueger Standalone Novels
| # | Read | Title | Published | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Devil's Bed | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
| 2 | Ordinary Grace | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
| 3 | This Tender Land | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
| 4 | The River We Remember | 2023 | Description / Buy |
Order of William Kent Krueger Short Stories/Novellas
| # | Read | Title | Published | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hixton (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 2 | The Levee | 2023 | Description / Buy |
Order of William Kent Krueger Short Story Collections
| # | Read | Title | Published | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The William Kent Krueger Reader's Companion | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Order of Akashic Noir Series with Michael Connelly, Diana Gabaldon, Lee Child, Robert B. Parker, Lawrence Block, Dennis Lehane, Herman Koch, Joe R. Lansdale, Reed Farrel Coleman, Laura Lippman, Lisa Unger, P.J. Parrish, Peter Robinson, Bill Loehfelm, Sara Paretsky, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Donald E Westlake, Peter James, Patricia Highsmith, Martyn Waites, Joseph Hansen, Brendan DuBois, Loren D. Estleman, Thomas Adcock, T. Jefferson Parker, Raymond Chandler, Tim Dorsey, John Burdett, S.J. Rozan, Julie Smith, James Grady, Max Allan Collins, Dick Lochte, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, John Lutz, Tom De Haven, Jerome Charyn, James Ellroy, Tom Franklin, Ross Macdonald, Margaret Millar, Joyce Carol Oates, James Crumley, Stanley Ellin, James M. Cain, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Ernesto Mallo, Gary Phillips, Linda Barnes, Walter Mosley, Andre Dubus, Stewart O'Nan, Mirron Willis, Don Winslow, James W. Hall, Kevin T. Collins, Megan Abbott, Brian McGilloway, Allyson Johnson, Jonathan Lethem, Les Standiford, Paul Levine, Tananarive Due, John Dufresne, Stuart Neville, Harry Hunsicker, Jonathan Davis, Christina Milletti, René Appel, Amity Gaige, Jedidiah Ayers, Dana Cameron, Lou Kemp, H.P. Lovecraft, Fredric Brown, Charles Ardai, Edith Wharton, Ian McDonald, Scott Phillips, Ace Atkins, William Campbell Gault, Sherwood Anderson, V.S. Naipaul, Carolyn Wheat, Joe Meno, Barbara Hambly, Josh Pachter, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jim Fusilli, Robert S. Levinson, Leigh Brackett, Maxim Jakubowski, James Sallis, Jerry Sykes, Ken Bruen, Desmond Barry, Sarah Weinman, Eddie Muller, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Naomi Hirahara, Peter Berkrot, Steve Cavanagh, Patty Friedmann, David Fulmer, Bobby Byrd, Patricia McFall, Irwin Shaw, Chester Himes, Michael Farris Smith, Andrew Paul, Lee Durkee, Robert Busby, John M. Floyd, RaShell R. Smith-Spears, Mary Miller, William Boyle, Jack Pendarvis, Dominiqua Dickey, Michael Kardos, Jamie Paige, Jimmy Cajoleas, Chris Offutt, Edwidge Danticat, Stuart Dybek, Ben Fountain, Sheila Kohler, David Wallace, Hirsh Sawhney, Pete Hamill, Robert Lopresti, Thomas Wolfe, Sandra Kitt, Inés Garland, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Leandro Ávalos Blacha, Maria Ines Krimer, Ariel Magnus, Veronica Abdala, Elsa Osorio, Claudia Piñeiro, Pablo de Santis, Inés Fernández Moreno, Alejandro Parisi, Alejandro Soifer, Enzo Maqueira, Peter Spiegelman, Nisi Shawl, David Corbett, Jervey Tervalon, Susan Straight, Andre Dubus III, Jim Grimsley, Tom Robbins, John Crowley, Nnedi Okorafor, Mark Kurlansky, Simon Wood, Laura Benedict, Brian Sutherland, Greg Herren, Brandon Massey, Vikas Adam, Achy Obejas, Nick Mamatas, Russ Aborn, Patricia Powell, Lynne Heitman, Itabari Njeri, Jaime Clarke, Mary Cotton, David Ryan, Kenneth Abel, Barbara Neely, Hannah Tinti, Jason Brown, Chuck Hogan, George Harrar, George V. Higgins, David Housewright, Clay McLeod Chapman, Twist Phelan, Charles Salzberg, Michael Anthony, Adrian McKinty, Claire McGowan, Richard Wright, Christopher M. Stevenson, David Haynes, Carolina Garcia-Aguilara, Barbara Parker, Tom Corcoran, Colin Channer, Ann Hood, Patrick McCabe, John Williams, John McFetridge, Jason Starr, Robert Ward, Kevin Baker, Michael Ward, Peter Doyle, Kwame Dawes, Jules Feiffer, K.J.A. Wishnia, Paul Cain, Seana Graham, Ed Park, Maryelizabeth Hart, Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, Roxana Robinson, Elizabeth Strout, Ian Thomson, Nelson Algren, Leone Ross, Stewart Home, Sam Wiebe, John C. Hocking, Jim Nisbet, Pete Hautman, Paul D. Marks, Charles Kelly, Kathleen Kent, Ellen Hart, Derek Walcott, Barry Gifford, Karen Brown, Sandra Cisneros, David L. Ulin, Denise Hamilton, Emily St. John Mandel, Peter Blauner, Mark Haskell Smith, Michael Gregorio, Cathi Unsworth, Mary Hoffman, Isabella Santacroce, Michelle Lovric, Francesca Mazzucato, Barbara Baraldi, Mike Hodges, Maria Tronca, Matteo Righetto, Tony Cartano, Francesco Ferracin, Altaf Tyrewala, Jarret Keene, Alejandro Murguía, Kurt Reichenbaugh, Chris Everheart, Theo Capel, Robert Antoni, Marlon James, Assaf Gavron, Marie Lily Cerat, Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Marvin Victor, Katia D. Ulysse, Ibi Zoboi, Nadine Pinede, Yanick Lahens, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Rodney Saint-Éloi, Patrick Sylvain, M.J. Fievre, Gary Victor, Kettly Mars, Evelyne Trouillot, Madison Smartt Bell, Josaphat-Robert Large, Stephen L. Carter, Irwin Allan Sealy, Radhika Jha, Hartosh Singh Bal, Siddharth Chowdhury, Ruchir Joshi, Meera Nair, Nalinaksha Bhattacharya, Mohan Sikka, Tabish Khair, Uday Prakash, Tim Broderick, Henry Blodget, Larry Light, James Hime, Lauren Sanders, Kathleen Alcalá, Susie Bright, Colson Whitehead, Sam Millar, Garbhan Downey, Eoin McNamee, Arlene Hunt, Alex Barclay, Ludy Caldwell, Gerard Brennan, Glenn Patterson, Elizabeth Mckenzie, Jerry Thompson, Gail Bowen, Milton T. Burton, Andrew Pyper, James Thompson, Michael Redhill, Lawrence Osborne, Tayari Jones, Suzanne Chazin, Eliot Schrefer, Kristen Lepionka, Bruce DeSilva, Larry Millett, Brigid Hughes, Chris Abani, Lauren Davis, Richie Narvaez, Catherine McKenzie, Chris Knopf, Luanne Rice, L.J. Smith, Jon Talton, R.M. Vaughan, Connie Rose Porter, David L. Robbins, Nury Vittachi, Marcia Douglas, Lee Quarnstrom, Craig Holden, Desiree Cooper, G.M. Ford, Gordon McAlpine, Howard Owen, Jennifer Harlow, Jonathan Stone, Lisa Sandlin, Lori Roy, Joanne Dobson, Maaza Mengiste, Martin Michaud, Mary Logue, Nathan Walpow, Ovidia Yu, Peggy Townsend, Robert Pobi, Steve Thayer, Meron Hadero, Dawn Raffel, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Gilbert Sorrentino, Jacques Filippi, C.L.R. James, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Lissa Marie Redmond, Emily Schultz, Ladee Hubbard, R. Barri Flowers, Bharti Kirchner, Kevin Sampsell, Sheri Joseph, Nathan Larson, Kim Chinquee, Tess Fragoulis, David Rich, Alice Mattison, Kate?ina Tu?ková, Melissa Yi, Michelle Tea, Kalamu ya Salaam, Mary Sharratt, Terrence Cheng, Dennis Danvers, Yxta Maya Murray, Mayra Santos-Febres, Gale Massey, Yassin Adnan, Lawrence Scott, Chika Unigwe, Jude Dibia, Kate Braverman, Tom Fontana, Neal Pollack, Thomas Glave, Kei Miller, Christopher John Farley, John Searles, Thomas Cobb, LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Taylor M. Polites, Hester Kaplan, Robert Leuci, Peter Farrelly, Pablo Rodríguez, Clint McCown, K.J. Erickson, Domenic Stansberry, Patricia Smith, Stephen L.J. Smith, Kathleen George, Gabrielle Lord, Chandra Prasad, Kenneth Wishnia, Sabina Murray, Peter Markus, Jessica Speart, Sarah Pemberton Strong, Karen E. Olson, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Steven Torres, Shani Mootoo, Colette Bancroft, Lisa D. Gray, Mike Penncavage, Linda Nieves-Powell, Shay Youngblood, Edward Joyce, Ted Anthony, Todd Craig, Ashley Dawson, Louisa Ermelino, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Michael Largo, Robert Knightly, Maggie Estep, Tim McLoughlin, C.J. Sullivan, Hubert Selby Jr., Salvatore La Puma, Christopher Musella, Kim Sykes, Jess Korman, Constance Casey, Rosemarie Yu, Dennis Hawkins, Errol Louis, Denise Buffa, Patricia Mulcahy, Aileen Gallagher, Vinnie Hansen, Patrick Millikin, Hanna Bervoets, Elizabeth Nunez, Brad Smith, Howard Shrier, Matt Bondurant, Terrance Hayes, Carlin Romano, Peter Maravelis, David Henry Sterry, Salar Abdoh, Colin Goh, Simon Tay, Philip Jeyaretnam, Colin Cheong, Monica Bhide, Suchen Christine Lim, Damon Chua, Johann S. Lee, Dave Chua, Mark Pilkington, E.J. Olsen, James Nolan, Bruce Rubenstein, Julie Schaper, Quinton Skinner, Judith Guest, Gary Bush, Brad Zellar, Sarah Gerard, Matthias Wittekindt, Curt Colbert, Paul S. Piper, Stephan Magcosta, Thomas P. Hopp, Patricia Harrington, Max Annas, Joolz Denby, Mark Dapin, P.M. Newton, Tom Gilling, Leigh Redhead, John Dale, Philip McLaren, Mandy Sayer, Peter Kirby, Mark Sinnett, Kim Moritsugu, Maceo Montoya, Steve Paul, Ahmed Saadawi, Alvin Lu, George Elliott Clarke, Budjette Tan, Kajo Baldisimo, Julie Koh, Joe Wallace, Sterling Watson, Lou Mathews, Samuel Archibald, Pasha Malla, Jessica Hagedorn, Robert Hughes, Angelo R. Lacuesta, R. Zamora Linmark, Lysley Tenorio, Vladimir Arsenijevi?, Daniel Bennett, Clay Reynolds, Vesna Goldsworthy, Harry Stephen Keeler, Daniel Black, Kati Hiekkapelto, David James Poissant, John Holman, John Wray, Merritt Tierce, Barbara Jenkins, Ken Hollings, Ariel Gore, Barry Adamson, Sylvie Simmons, Max Décharné, Joe McNally, Robert Drewe, Aurélien Masson, Kevin Prufer, Anthony Grooms, Tony Bellotto, Susan Blumberg- Kason, Salim Hatubou, Sara Doke, Nada Gaši?, Sarah Cortez, Abbas Beydoun, Irina Denezhkina, Pavel Krusanov, Gwendolyn Zepeda, Martin Goffa, Pavel Mandys, Manjula Padmanabhan., Omair Ahmad, Palash K. Mehrotra, Willi Chen, Ismith Khan, Earl Lovelace, Daniel J. Hale, Ed Dee, Muharem Bazdulj, Kaylie Jones, Janine Armin, Nathaniel G. Moore, Raywat Deonandan, Heather Birrell, Sean Dixon, Ibi Kaslik, Nathan Sellyn, Christine Murray, Gina B. Nahai, Miles Marshall Lewis, Jill Wolfson, Jon Longhi, Amy Spangler, Hermine Pinson, Michael Berg, Anneloes Timmerije, Murat Isik, Simon De Waal,, Karin Amatmoekrim, Christine Otten, Mensje van Keulen, Max van Olden, Loes den Hollander, Abdelkader Benali, Walter van den Berg, Peter Plate, Miljenko Jergovi, Edward Robert Hughes, Liza Monroy, Tommy Moore, Jessica Breheny, Jon Bailiff, Calvin McMillin, Micah Perks, Wallace Baine, Beth Liseck, Dillon Kaiser, Willow Pennell, Pir Rothenberg, Rita Laken, Pat Picciarelli, Abraham Rodriguez Jr., Thomas Bentil, Emma Rathbone, Don Noble, Luis Castillo, Kirsten Tranter, Eleanor Limprecht, Peter Polites, Kenji Jasper, Hannah Giorgis, Mahtem Shiferraw, Chiara Stangalino, Rob Pobi, Patrick Senécal, Jo Seymour, Ian Truman, Michel Basilieres,, Arjun Basu, Geneviève Lefebvre, Andrew Blossom, Laura Browder, Anne Thomas Soffee, Brian Castleberry, Yazmina Beverly, X.C. Atkins, Meagan J. Saunders, Conrad Ashley Persons, Lourd de Veyra, F. H. Batacan, Jose Dalisay, Brooke Costello, Gary Earl Ross, Dimitri Anastasopoulos, Wayne Brown, Colleen J. McElroy, Mikael Awake, Percy Spurlark Parker, Todd James Pierce, Johanne Seymour, Laureen P. Cantwell, Leonard Gill, Mahsa Mohebali, Samuel Selvon, Eric Roach, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Jennifer Rahim, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, Sharon Millar, Fouad Laroui, Bewketu Seyoum, Misha Glenny, Jules Feifer, Jane Ciabattari, Allal Bourqia, Miron Zownir, S.L. Coney, Hossein Abkenar, Farhaad H. Gooran, Majed Neisi, Sima Saeedi, Zoë Beck, Rob Alef, Katja Bohnet, Ute Cohen, Johannes Groschupf, Kai Hensel, Robert Rescue, Susanne Saygin, Ulrich Woelk, Michael Wuliger, Robert Mailer Anderson, Skye Kathleen Moody, Chris Barsanti, Lucy Jones, Eric Boyd, Steven Wishnia, Amani Scipio, Tim Tomlinson, Matthew McGevna, Qanta Ahmed, J.Z. Holden, Calvin Wilson, LaVelle Wilkins-Chinn, Jason Makansi, Michael Castro, Umar Lee, Mustafa Ziyalan, Bo Tao Michaëlis, Hugh Holton, Danny L?pez, Yuly Restrepo Garc?s, Sulaiman Addonia, Girma T Fantaye, Rebecca Fisseha, Lelissa Girma, Solomon Hailemariam, Teferi Nigussie Tafa, Linda Yohannes, Milorad Ivanovi?, Dallas Hudgens, Alesia Parker, Gillian Royes, Oto Oltvanji, Mirjana ?ur?evi?, Vladan Matijevi?, Dejan Stojiljkovi?, Aleksandar Gatalica, Vule Žuri?, Verica Vincent Cole, Goran Skrobonja, Brian Thornton, Will Christopher Baer, Sin Soracco, Scott Gutches, Ali F. Sareini, Stephen Geez, B.M. Dolarman, Zeke Caligiuri, Marco Verdoni, Kenneth R. Brydon, Linda Michelle Marquardt, Andre White, Timothy Pauley, Bryan K. Palmer, William Van Poyck
| # | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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| 1 | San Francisco Noir | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
| 2 | Seattle Noir | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
| 3 | Bronx Noir | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
| 4 | Brooklyn Noir | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
| 5 | Brooklyn Noir 2 | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
| 6 | Chicago Noir | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
| 7 | Manhattan Noir | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
| 8 | Miami Noir: The Classics | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
| 9 | D.C. Noir | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
| 10 | Baltimore Noir | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
| 11 | London Noir | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
| 12 | New Orleans Noir | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
| 13 | Los Angeles Noir | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
| 14 | Wall Street Noir | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
| 15 | Havana Noir | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
| 16 | Detroit Noir | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
| 17 | Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
| 18 | Toronto Noir | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
| 19 | Las Vegas Noir | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
| 20 | Manhattan Noir 2 | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
| 21 | Paris Noir | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
| 22 | Istanbul Noir | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
| 23 | Boston Noir | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
| 24 | Rome Noir | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
| 25 | San Francisco Noir 2 | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
| 26 | Portland Noir | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
| 27 | Delhi Noir | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
| 28 | Phoenix Noir | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
| 29 | Los Angeles Noir 2 | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 30 | Mexico City Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 31 | Richmond Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 32 | Orange County Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 33 | Indian Country Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 34 | Moscow Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 35 | Lone Star Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 36 | Philadelphia Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 37 | Haiti Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 38 | Copenhagen Noir | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 39 | Pittsburgh Noir | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
| 40 | San Diego Noir | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
| 41 | Pittsburgh Noir | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
| 42 | Barcelona Noir | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
| 43 | Cape Cod Noir | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
| 44 | Staten Island Noir | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
| 45 | Mumbai Noir | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
| 46 | Long Island Noir | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
| 47 | Venice Noir | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
| 48 | Kingston Noir | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
| 49 | St. Petersburg Noir | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
| 50 | Kansas City Noir | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
| 51 | Boston Noir 2 | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
| 52 | Manila Noir | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
| 53 | Buffalo Noir | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
| 54 | Twin Cities Noir | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
| 55 | Dallas Noir | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
| 56 | Haiti Noir 2 | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
| 57 | Singapore Noir | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
| 58 | Prison Noir | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
| 59 | Tel Aviv Noir | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
| 60 | Tehran Noir | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
| 61 | Belfast Noir | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
| 62 | Helsinki Noir | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
| 63 | Providence Noir | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
| 64 | Chicago Noir: The Classics | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
| 65 | Memphis Noir | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
| 66 | Zagreb Noir | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
| 67 | Marseille Noir | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
| 68 | Beirut Noir | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
| 69 | Stockholm Noir | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
| 70 | Brussels Noir | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
| 71 | Mississippi Noir | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
| 72 | St. Louis Noir | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
| 73 | Prague Noir | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
| 74 | San Juan Noir | 2016 | Description / Buy | |
| 75 | Oakland Noir | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
| 76 | Trinidad Noir | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
| 77 | Atlanta Noir | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
| 78 | New Haven Noir | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
| 79 | Montana Noir | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
| 80 | Buenos Aires Noir | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
| 81 | Montreal Noir | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
| 82 | Berlin Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
| 83 | São Paulo Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
| 84 | Santa Cruz Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
| 85 | Lagos Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
| 86 | Marrakech Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
| 87 | Baghdad Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
| 88 | Vancouver Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
| 89 | Sydney Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
| 90 | Hong Kong Noir | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
| 91 | Amsterdam Noir | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
| 92 | Houston Noir | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
| 93 | Columbus Noir | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
| 94 | Santa Fe Noir | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
| 95 | Alabama Noir | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
| 96 | Addis Ababa Noir | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
| 97 | Tampa Bay Noir | 2020 | Description / Buy | |
| 98 | Belgrade Noir | 2020 | Description / Buy |
William Kent Krueger Anthologies
| # | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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| 1 | Twin Cities Noir | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
| 2 | Death Do Us Part | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
| 3 | These Guns for Hire | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
| 4 | Resort to Murder | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
| 5 | Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Murder, Mayhem and Suspense | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
| 6 | Crimes by Moonlight | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
| 7 | Writes of Spring | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
| 8 | Writing Murder: A Basic Guide to Writing Mystery Fiction | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
| 9 | USA Noir | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
| 10 | Reader's Digest Select Editions, Volume 340 | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
| 11 | Bullets and Other Hurting Things: A Tribute to Bill Crider | 2021 | Description / Buy | |
| 12 | Thriller | 2023 | Description / Buy |
A student of Stanford University, Krueger was a victim of the student protests in the spring of 1970, drawn into conflict with the university’s administration and finding his academic path cut short. That didn’t prevent Krueger from proceeding in life, making a living by digging ditches, logging timber and performing various other odd jobs.
The husband and father of two children wrote many short stories before Iron Lake, his first novel was completed. He was forty-years-old by this time, though that didn’t prevent him from capitalizing on the opportunities for success that suddenly came his way at this point.
William Kent Krueger is best known for the Cork O’Conner series, a collection of novels about Cork O’Conner, a part-Ojibwe and part Irish protagonist living in and around Native American Reservations. Krueger read a lot of books about Ojibwe history before embarking on the task of producing the Cork O’Conner series.
William Kent Krueger Awards
Krueger’s first novel Iron Lake won him the Barry Award, Minnesota Book award and the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, not to mention the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award. Few authors have ever enjoyed such a successful start to their publishing career, at least critically.
Krueger went on to win numerous other awards, this including the Edgar Award, Dilys Award, and back-to-back Anthony awards, not to mention the Readers Choice award and Friends of American Writers Prize.
Best William Kent Krueger Books
Krueger has a passion for the Cork O’Conner novels, this being the series that put him on the map and earned him his fame, with some of the best books in the series including the following:
Mercy Falls: What seems like a routine call to the nearby Ojibwe reservation leaves Cork O’Connor’s life exposed. Finally back as Sheriff of Tamarack County, it comes as surprise to Cork when he is targeted by Sniper Fire.
Cork has no time to ponder the situation because the mutilated body of a Chicago businessman known as Eddie Jacoby has been found hanging over Mercy Falls. Cork’s investigation is complicated by the beautiful private investigator hired by the Jacoby family to look into the case.
But even that proves a little inconsequential when Cork finds a connection between his wife and one of the Jacoby Sons. There are personal motives at play, motives of a dark nature, and Cork will stop at nothing to reveal the truth beneath the turbulent waters of Mercy Falls.
Readers of this book can expect to basically follow the trials of the Tamarack County Sheriff’s office over a period of a few hours. It all starts with the sniper fire that meets Cork and his deputy on a reservation.
It becomes clear that someone has Cork in their sights, and he isn’t the only one they want dead. It isn’t made immediately obvious that the attack has any connection to the death of a wealthy businessman.
This book has a great hook at the start, though some readers won’t appreciate the technique Krueger chooses to deploy. This book won an Anthony Award.
Heaven’s Keep: When Jo’s plane disappears in a snowstorm, Cork accepts that he has lost his wife forever. However, his grief is interrupted by two women who raise doubts about the identity of the pilot of Jo’s plane.
Armed with this little ray of light in the dark, Cork leaves for Wyoming even as various forces seek to throw him off the trail. Cork has to believe that, in following the labyrinthine journey set out before him, he just might find Jo alive and well, waiting for him to rescue her.
William Kent Krueger writes a thrilling adventure that is a little light on the adventure. Slower-paced than most of his other novels, Krueger doesn’t forget to highlight the Native American issues that liter most of his work, and these themes intertwine perfectly with the mystery at the heart of the book. The book is a little more personal than most because it places Cork’s wife at the center of everything.
When Does The Next William Kent Krueger book come out?
William Kent Krueger doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Spirit Crossing and was released on August, 20th 2024. It is the newest book in the Cork O'Connor Series.