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A review by marilynw
Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger
4.0
Fox Creek (Cork O'Connor #19)
by William Kent Krueger
A young woman, Delores, asks Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux and his niece, Rainy, to help her understand the problems she is having with her husband. He is missing and if he is finished with her she wants to learn to accept it but if he needs help of some kind, she wants to help him. Then Cork arrives at the cabins to tell his wife Rainy and Meloux that the wife's husband is looking for her. But no, it's not her husband, it's one of a group of mercenaries, trying to find the husband through his wife.
Meloux is past 100 years old now. But he's been walking in the wilderness daily, sometimes not coming back to the cabin for days. Old as Meloux is, he is also more than prepared to lead Rainy and Delores into the wilderness to escape the men who are following them. Such an old man shouldn't be able to outwalk these mercenaries, especially since they have a skilled tracker with them. But Meloux doesn't use his body to elude the men, he uses all the knowledge he's gained over the last century. And he has Rainy with him, a former nurse and a woman who has learned so much from Henry.
The Boundary Waters have played such a huge part in this series and Cork knows the Boundary Waters, too. His father, his mentor Sam, and Meloux have all shared it with him over the years. Now, he and the missing man's brother are tracking the men who are tracking his wife, Delores, and Meloux, not knowing why these men want Delores and her husband. There is so much more to the story and it takes us to several locations, introducing us to some new characters who I hope will be a part of the series, in the future.
Pub: August 23, 2022
Thank you to Atria Books and NetGalley for this ARC.
by William Kent Krueger
A young woman, Delores, asks Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux and his niece, Rainy, to help her understand the problems she is having with her husband. He is missing and if he is finished with her she wants to learn to accept it but if he needs help of some kind, she wants to help him. Then Cork arrives at the cabins to tell his wife Rainy and Meloux that the wife's husband is looking for her. But no, it's not her husband, it's one of a group of mercenaries, trying to find the husband through his wife.
Meloux is past 100 years old now. But he's been walking in the wilderness daily, sometimes not coming back to the cabin for days. Old as Meloux is, he is also more than prepared to lead Rainy and Delores into the wilderness to escape the men who are following them. Such an old man shouldn't be able to outwalk these mercenaries, especially since they have a skilled tracker with them. But Meloux doesn't use his body to elude the men, he uses all the knowledge he's gained over the last century. And he has Rainy with him, a former nurse and a woman who has learned so much from Henry.
The Boundary Waters have played such a huge part in this series and Cork knows the Boundary Waters, too. His father, his mentor Sam, and Meloux have all shared it with him over the years. Now, he and the missing man's brother are tracking the men who are tracking his wife, Delores, and Meloux, not knowing why these men want Delores and her husband. There is so much more to the story and it takes us to several locations, introducing us to some new characters who I hope will be a part of the series, in the future.
Pub: August 23, 2022
Thank you to Atria Books and NetGalley for this ARC.