Iron Lake

Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger

Narrated by Jerry Sciarrio

Published by Books in Motion

At A Glance: Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Corcoran “Cork” O’Connor is the former sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota (population 3,752). Embittered over losing his job as a cop and over the marital meltdown that has separated him from his wife and children, Cork gets by on heavy doses of caffeine, nicotine, and guilt. Once a cop on Chicago’s South Side, there’s not much that can shock him. But when a powerful local politician is brutally murdered the same night a young Indian boy goes missing, Cork takes on a harrowing case of corruption, conspiracy, and scandal. As a blizzard buries Aurora and an old medicine man warns of the arrival of a blood-thirsty mythic beast called the Wendigo, Cork must dig for answers hard and fast before more people, among them those he loves, will die.

What The Goose? My father recommended William Kent Krueger to me, which is a good thing as I’ve always trusted his judgment. Plus we have similar tastes, though he doesn’t get into the fantasy genre as much as I do. So, I thought this may be a fun book to listen to during my 45 min commute to work. I’ve been an Audible.com subscriber for a number of years now, and both my father and I were quite surprised to find that Krueger’s books, ALL of them, were on Audible. You see, Krueger is apparently considered more of a regional author, so finding all his books on my favorite distributor of audiobooks even raised my interest further.

So I added Iron Lake, the first in the series, to my library, downloaded it, loaded it into my iPod, and away I went. This book was a very good book, and this is Krueger’s first published work!

Very good suspense in this one. Yes, it’s a murder mystery and it contains enough twists and turns to keep that it kept me guessing to the end. I’d highly recommend this to anyone interested in these suspenseful, modern novels. Plus Jerry Sciarrio turned out to be an extremely good narrator for this story. I’ve listened to quite a few books from Audible. I’ve got my favorite narrators, and I’ve got some that I’d prefer not to listen to. Sciarrio is definitely on the good list.

Suck-O-Meter: This book Really Didn’t Suck.