Apostle’s Cove is a 2025 murder mystery novel by one of my favourite authors, William Kent Krueger.

The 21st book in his Cork O’Connor Mystery series. 

This one has an interesting format.

A few nights before Halloween, as Cork O’Connor gloomily 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 once again to commit murder to keep him from finding the truth.