Download Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger PDF
Part of series: Cork O'Connor Part 14
Key ideas from the book
- Cork O’Connor investigates the disappearance of Mariah Arceneaux and her friend.
- Ojibwe stories of the Windigo and Michi Peshu form part of the case’s local context.
- The investigation leads toward sex trafficking in Duluth.
- The novel explores the danger faced by vulnerable young Native American women.
- Readers get a suspenseful crime story centered on a private investigator and a family’s search for a missing girl.
About Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger
Published in 2014, this Cork O’Connor mystery begins when the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl is found on an island in Lake Superior. At the request of Mariah Arceneaux’s family, private investigator Cork O’Connor investigates the disappearance of Mariah and her friend a year earlier. On the Bad Bluff reservation, local accounts invoke the Windigo or Michi Peshu, while the investigation turns toward sex trafficking in Duluth, including the exploitation of young Native American women.
Krueger brings together crime investigation, suspense, Ojibwe cultural lore, and the search for a missing girl. The novel will suit readers of contemporary detective fiction interested in Native American communities and the dangers faced by vulnerable women.
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