Boundary Waters

The Quetico-Superior Wilderness: two million-plus acres of primeval forest white-water rapids and uncharted islands on the Canadian/American border. Somewhere in the heart of this unforgiving territory a young woman named Shiloh -- a country-western singer at the height of her fame -- has disappeared. Her father arrives in Aurora Minnesota intent on hiring Cork OConnor -- former Aurora sheriff and an old family friend -- to find his daughter. Reluctant at first Cork finds himself forced into joining a search party comprised of Shilohs father an angry ex-convict a pair of FBI agents and a ten-year-old boy. But they are not the only ones hunting Shiloh. Others are on her trail as well. Hired men: hired not just to find her...but to kill her. As the expedition ventures deeper into the wilderness strangers descend on Aurora threatening to spill blood on the towns snow-whitened streets over a fifteen-year-old unsolved murder. Meanwhile out on the Boundary Waters winter falls hard. Corks team of searchers loses all contact with civilization and like the brutal winds of a relentless Minnesota blizzard death -- violent and sudden -- stalks them. Iron Lake marked William Kent Krueger as an electrifyingly fresh voice in the annals of suspense. Vivid explosive and utterly compelling Boundary Waters is a masterpiece of mystery and much more. It is a brilliant novel of love greed murder and survival an uncommon page-turner that establishes Krueger as one of the most versatile and talented authors writing today.