02687cam a2200445 i 4500 601146674 TxAuBib 20220809120000.0 210811s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982128685 1982128682 (OCoLC)1263359236 TxAuBib rda Krueger, William Kent, author. Lightning strike : a novel / William Kent Krueger. First Atria books hardcover edition. New York : Atria Books, 2021. ©2021. x, 385 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Cork O'Connor ; 18 "[A] powerful prequel to his Cork O'Connor series..." -- jacket. Published after #17, Desolation Mountain, but thematically takes place before #1, Iron Lake. Aurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of Minnesota's Iron Lake. In the summer of 1963, it is the whole world to twelve-year-old Cork O'Connor, its rhythms as familiar as his own heartbeat. But when Cork stumbles upon the body of a man he revered hanging from a tree in an abandoned logging camp, it is the first in a series of events that will cause him to question everything he took for granted about his hometown, his family, and himself. Cork's father, Liam O'Connor, is Aurora's sheriff and it is his job to confirm that the man's death was the result of suicide, as all the evidence suggests. In the shadow of his father's official investigation, Cork begins to look for answers on his own. Together, father and son face the ultimate test of choosing between what their heads tell them is true and what their hearts know is right. In this masterful story of a young man and a town on the cusp of change, beloved novelist William Kent Krueger shows that some mysteries can be solved even as others surpass our understanding.-- Publisher's description. 20220809. O'Connor, Cork (Fictitious character) Childhood and youth Fiction. O'Connor, Cork (Fictitious character) Fiction. Private investigators Minnesota Fiction. Preteens Minnesota Fiction. Fathers and sons Fiction. Sheriffs Minnesota Fiction. Suicide Fiction. Homicide investigation Fiction. Minnesota Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Detective and mystery fiction. Novels. Cork O'Connor ; 18.