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Written by William Kent Krueger - Audio book performed by Jerry Sciarrio - Unabridged Fiction - 11 RETAIL EDITION COMPACT DISCS - 11.5 hours

Publisher, Books in Motion (2004)

"Krueger's debut offers wonderful characters...Sure to appeal to fans of Nevada Barr and Tony Hillerman." --Booklist (starred review)

Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor is the former Sheriff of Aurora Minnesota--population 3,752. Part Irish, part Anishinaabe, out of work, divorced and separated from his children, Cork gets by on heavy doses of caffeine and guilt. Once a Chicago beat cop, there's not much left in life to shock him. But when local judge Robert Parrant is brutally murdered and Eagle Scout Paul LeBeau is reported missing, Cork takes on the case.. Asked by LeBeau's panicked mother to find her son, the former Sheriff begins an investigation that grows icier than a Minnesota lake on a winter midnight. The new Sheriff is destroying evidence, and a paramilitary group orders Cork to forget the case. There's a small-town secret with big-time implications just below the icy surface, and Cork has turned the heat up to defrost....