Apostle's Cove: A Novel: Volume 21 (Cork O'Connor Mystery Series)

The New York Times bestselling Cork O’Connor Mystery series-a “master class in suspense and atmospheric storytelling” (The Real Book Spy)-continues with Cork O’Connor revisiting a case from his past and confronting mysterious deaths in the present.A few nights before Halloween, as Cork O’Connor ruminates on his upcoming birthday, he receives a call from his son, Stephen, who is working for a nonprofit dedicated to securing freedom for unjustly incarcerated inmates.Stephen tells his father that decades ago, as the newly elected sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork was responsible for sending an Ojibwe man named Axel Boshey to prison for a brutal murder that Stephen is certain he did not commit. Cork feels compelled to reinvestigate the crime, but that is easier said than done.Not only is it a closed case, but Axel Boshey is, inexplicably, refusing to help.The deeper Cork digs, the clearer it becomes that there are those in Tamarack County who are willing to commit murder to keep him from fi