Spirit Crossing (2024) is the 20th book in the Cork O’Connor series.

Every new William Kent Krueger novel is a joy.

The disappearance of a local politician’s white teenaged daughter is major news in Minnesota.

As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O’Connor’s grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman—but nobody seems that interested. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police.

As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this mysterious and grim discovery, they uncover a connection to the missing teenager. And soon, it’s clear that Cork’s grandson is in danger of being the killer’s next victim.

In college, Krueger had wanted to become a cultural anthropologist.

He became intrigued by researching the Ojibwe culture and weaving the information into his books.

His books are set in and around Native American reservations. The main character, Cork O’Connor, is part Ojibwe and part Irish.

An oil pipeline is being built through a sacred Ojibwe site in Minnesota’s north woods. Construction is at a standstill due to the Ojibwe/Anishinaabe protests. Tension in the community.

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