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It’s been two years since William Kent Krueger’s last novel, This Tender Land. And it’s been three years since his last Cork O’Connor series title, Desolation Mountain. Lightning Strike combines the brilliance of the Cork O’Connor protagonist along with nostalgia and the delicate nature of history, family and “home” from 2019’s This Tender Land. Which is to say, this prequel to the Cork O’Connor story is a perfect storm of Krueger’s writing — intriguing, heartfelt and empathetic. We always feel good about life after reading a William Kent Krueger novel.

An instant New York Times bestseller, this prequel to the acclaimed Cork O’Connor series is “a pitch perfect, richly imagined story that is both an edge-of-your-seat thriller and an evocative, emotionally charged coming-of-age tale” (Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author) about fathers and sons, small-town conflicts, and the events that shape our lives forever.

Aurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of Minnesota’s Iron Lake. In the summer of ...