William Kent Krueger: Trickster's Point (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
Now in paperback! The action never stops in the New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor mystery series -- and this time O'Connor is targeted by a political assassin.

William Kent Krueger's latest New York Times bestseller is a thrilling exploration of the motives, both good and ill, that lead men and women into the difficult, sometimes deadly, political arena.

The dying don't easily become the dead.

Cork O'Connor is sitting in the shadow of a towering monolith known as Trickster's Point, deep in the Minnesota wilderness. With him is Jubal Little, who is favored to become the first Native American elected governor of Minnesota and who is slowly dying with an arrow through his heart. Although the men have been bow-hunting, a long-standing tradition among these two friends, this is no hunting accident. The arrow turns out to be one of Cork's, and he becomes the primary suspect in the murder. He understands full well that he's been set up. As he works to clear his name and track the real killer, he remembers his long, complex relationship with the tough kid who would grow up to become a professional football player, a populist politician, and the lover of the first woman to whom Cork ever gave his heart. Jubal was known by many for his passion, his loyalty, and his ambition. Only Cork knows that he was capable of murder.

William Kent Krueger: Trickster's Point. A Novel. Atria Books, ISBN: 9781451645712 (May, 2013), 329 p., $16.00.

William Kent Krueger: Trickster's Point (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
The latest in the New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor mystery series -- the action never stops when the private detective ends up in the crosshairs of a political assassin.

In Trickster's Point, the unsinkable Cork O'Connor is sitting in the shadow of a towering monolith known as Trickster's Point, deep in the Minnesota wilderness. Beside him is the first Native American governor-elect, Jubal Little, who is slowly dying with an arrow through his heart. Although the men have been bow hunting, this is no accident. The arrow in the governor's heart belongs to Cork.

When he becomes the primary suspect in the murder, Cork understands full well that he's been set up. As he works to clear his name and track the real killer, he recalls his long, complex relationship with Jubal, the Native kid who aspired to be a populist politician and grew to become a cunning man capable of treachery and murder. As Cork looks deeply into his own past, he comes face to face with the many motives, good and ill, that lead men and women into the difficult, sometimes deadly, political arena.

With crisp writing filled with the twists and turns his fans have come to expect, Krueger delivers another knockout novel of suspense.

William Kent Krueger: Trickster's Point. A Novel. Atria Books, ISBN: 9781451645675 (August, 2012), 329 p., $24.99.