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In the absence of wind, the grass still trembles. He might begin by saying that the earth is alive, that all things on it-water, air, plants, rocks, even dead trees-have spirit. Henry Meloux, the old Ojibwe Mide, might tell the story this way.

We care about them and about what happens to them… Krueger writes most extraordinary books.” As in his previous novels, the author deftly presents the reader with wonderfully drawn, intensely believable characters. The beauty of the uninhabited woods and the lake-they are all part of the mysterious aura surrounding the novel. “The locale of the story is as much of a character in the plot as the people. “Krueger conveys a solid sense of place, the woodlands near the shore of Lake Superior, northwest out of Marquette, where scenes from Anatomy of a Murder had been filmed.” Minnesota has a become a hotbed of hard-boiled crime fiction, and the Cork O’Connor novels are among the best.”

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“This series gets darker and more elegantly written with every book. Bill Pronzini, author of the Nameless Detective series and Blue Lonesome

William Kent Krueger may just be the best pure suspense novelist working today.” It’s a novel to be savored, and one that makes the reader eager for the next installment.

“ Copper River, like each of the previous entries in the Cork O’Connor series, is a riveting thriller rich in character, incident, insight, textured plotting, and evocative prose that captures the lore and rhythms of life-and the pain and sadness of death-in America’s heartland.