Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Book shows wear to cover edges and spine. Spine has creases. Corners bent/rounded. Cover may have folds or creases. Otherwise in good reading condition. read more
Description: Used; Like New. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Second novel featuring private eye Cork O'Connor. In the Quetico-Superior wilderness along the Canadian-American border, a young woman named Shiloh has disappeared. She's a country-western singer at the height of her fame. Her father goes to Minnesota to hire his old family friend Cork O'Connor to find her. But others are on her trail, not just to find her, but to kill her. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Pocket Star, New York
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780671016999ISBN:0671016997
Description: Very Good. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. Signed by Author Softcover 2000 edition. Signed by author. Covers and text in very good condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. [402 pages] read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Star
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780671016999ISBN:0671016997
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780671016982ISBN:0671016989
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Author Binding is clean, tight and straight w/ sharp corners; very slight bump to tail of spine; a few very small marks to front edge of pages; dust jkt is clean and bright w/ no tears or stains; very slight wrinkle at head of spine; not price clipped or remaindered. The author's terrific second mystery. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780671016982ISBN:0671016989
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 336 p. Cork O'Connor Mysteries (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. First edition, first printing. Signed on the second title page with May 17, 1999 St. Paul, Minnesota added. With letter from author. Book was mailed to his home for signature. Shipped to you in a box, not a padded mailer. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780671016982ISBN:0671016989
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. First Edition, First Print. Signed in person on the FULL title page, NOT inscribed, clipped or otherwise marked. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Description: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. 2000. Mass Market Paperback. Used, good. : Good overall with moderate wear. No dust jacket. read more
"Just like the last Cork O'Connor mystery, this one was hard to get into. I can't decide if I like the series or not...or whether to continue it. I don't dislike it enough to not read it, but I don't like it enough to rave about it. I find myself torn and almost wanting to continue reading just to see if it ever gets better."
"This is the second of the series. This was much better than the first in terms of content. It had a more involved tapestry of suspects and contradictions to wade through before finding out who the real bad guy was (it wasn't the butler this time). He did leave one question unresolved. It was not critical to the book, but since it was dwelt on for so much of the story, it would have been nice to have had an answer to it."
"Apparently, you go to war with the military you have. In my case, I go out to read on the back porch on a spectacular summer Sunday in Minnesota with the random mystery I could find, because I have utterly lost the book I was reading somewhere in the house.
People love to argue about the universality of fiction; how Homer or Shakespeare or Michael Crichton speaks to the human condition of war, heartbreak, and dinosaurs rampaging on a Latin American island. I don't know about all of this, but I do know something about the locality of this specific fiction. I'm a Minnesotan; I speak with a pretty strong accent; I make my (non-native) husband nuts with my exaggerated diphthongs and the use of the phrase "or no?" instead of "or not?" (As in the question, "Do you want to go with, or no?" The dropped "me" after the preposition makes him nuts too. Poor guy. Welcome to the Midwest.)
Anyway, I had a super duper good time reading this book (so much so that I got beaned in the face by the boy hitting a wiffle ball that knocked off my glasses) but I hesitate to say it was good, you know? There's a lot for a local to dig on: all the Wadenas and LaDucs and Ericksons I know from school and life; the sense of impending winter in the sharp tang of October wind; the uneasy relationships between whites and Natives, Lutherans and Catholics, people who have lived in a small, Northern town for 20 years, and the local-born who view those people as interlopers.
But (but) there's a lot to this book that bums me out and makes me tired. There was a gay C&W star who spoke like there were coons treed in the moonshine and he was sad about the coal mine shuttin' down. It was just an incest joke away from total Appalachian caricature, and I didn't really appreciate it. In addition, there were Las Vegas Mafia types, complete with goomba hairstyles, and that was lame too. When the author added in a survivor from the Watts riots, I rolled my eyes so hard I sprained my eyeballs. Although it could have been the wiffle ball to the face.
And this may be just a local complaint, but every single time I read the name of the character Marais Grand, I cringed. Grand Marais, "the big meadow", is a town I know and love on the North Shore of Lake Superior, about an hour and half south of the Canadian Border. That someone would be named Marais Grand kills me as if someone were named Chase Chevy, Moines Des, or York New. It's bad plotting man, even if it isn't plotting. Stop it right now.
But back to plotting: the story rips. There's lot of death-by-ax, and portaging, and Native American spirit freaking animals (thankfully they don't talk) but our intrepid protagonist Cork O'Connor (this name bugs me too) knows when to hold 'em and when to serve some hamburgers and when to have a show down with unlikely stone cold killer the Bad Guy found on the Internet.
So, yeah, maybe this book sucks a bit, but it sucks in a local way, and it warms my heart as only shoe packs and hot dish can warm my heart. Winter's coming. Even when it's summer."
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