Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 11/11/2017 + 1031 more book reviews

Second in the series featuring Cork O'Connor. This time Cork is asked by an old acquaintance to help find his daughter, supposedly missing somewhere in over a million acres of wilderness. Cork is reluctant as he doesn't think he can be much help, but decides if that were his daughter he would want someone to try. The situation turns very strange very quickly as two other parties appear, both claiming to be the biological father of the missing woman; and then the FBI turns up threatening all and sundry if they don't cooperate. There are multiple POVs in this story: Cork, his estranged wife Jo, and Shiloh, the missing woman. Each POV was given enough pages so I didn't feel like I was bouncing from one to the next, although Krueger ended a number of chapters with big cliffhangers. I also thought he did a good job disguising the real villain; although I knew someone in the search party was a bad guy, I didn't know who it was until the author revealed it (not my first time reading this book, but it was long enough ago I didn't remember any of it). Excellent sense of place with the foreboding woods, the lakes and river rapids, and the stories told by the young Anishinaabe boy add a lot of atmosphere. Like the first book it reads very quickly. There's enough backstory so that if you hadn't read the first it's easy to pick up the characters. Large body count and some gory bits but bottom line, it was very suspenseful. Good book.

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