Blood Hollow: A Cork O'Connor Mystery Novel - Thrilling Crime Fiction for Book Clubs & Mystery Lovers

"Blood Hollow" is a mystery/thriller with unending suspense. Cork O'Connor is back investigating a murder of a young woman, Charlotte Kane. While out in the blizzard, during the rescue, Cork experiences a vision. His world, as Henry Meloux tells him, is a complicated mixture of two planes, which are diverse and difficult to reconcile. He has his grandmother's Indian spirituality and his father's Irish stubborness and determination. He was once a strong Catholic believer, he lost the faith but as he moves through this story, he begins to find the need to listen to the inner spirit which guides him, though sometimes unwillingly. St. Agnes welcomes Cork back to the fold and I think this is going to alter his sense of self and make him a much more tolerant, introspective person.Once again Willliam Kent Krueger writes with a poetic nuance. There were times when his descriptions of the sunset in Minnesota were so powerful that I had to stop reading and just think about it, put myself there. Had he not chosen fiction, I believe Mr. Krueger would have been a prize-winning poet.The mystery begins with the death of a young girl and the young Indian man, named Solemn Winter Moon who is accused of her murder. Cork is determined to prove Solemn's innocence despite a town that is ready to convict him without appropriate investigation. The evidence points to him but as Cork reveals, false. Cork discovers that the young girl was having an affair with a married man whose wife is having an affair of her own. Rose falls in love with a Priest who falls in love with her and begins a quest to question his own faith. There are miracles, unexplained. Motivation is spiritually driven. Fletcher is a man wearing a mask, living in a world he has made for himself. Charlotte, Glory, Fletcher, Arne, Gooding, and Mal are multi-dimensional because of personal histories that have shaped their destiny today. The light shines through the stained glass window and the truth is revealed. It really is a very complicated novel but you can't put the book down until the very last page.This is my favorite, so far, of the Cork mysteries. I am now ready to read "Mercy Falls" and I am quite anxious to do so.If you haven't read William Kent Krueger then I suggest you do yourself a favor and read one of his novels, you will become a fan as I am.