Lightning Strike

The author of the instant New York Times bestseller This Tender Land returns with a powerful prequel to his acclaimed Cork OΓÇÖConnor seriesΓÇöa book about fathers and sons,long-simmering conflicts in a small Minnesota townand the events that echo through youth and shape our lives forever. Aurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of MinnesotaΓÇÖs Iron Lake. In the summer of 1963it is the whole world to twelve-year-old Cork OΓÇÖConnorits rhythms as familiar as his own heartbeat. But when Cork stumbles upon the body of a man he revered hanging from a tree in an abandoned logging campit is the first in a series of events that will cause him to question everything he took for granted about his hometownhis familyand himself. CorkΓÇÖs fatherLiam OΓÇÖConnoris AuroraΓÇÖs sheriff and it is his job to confirm that the manΓÇÖs death was the result of suicideas all the evidence suggests. In the shadow of his fatherΓÇÖs official investigationCork begins to look for answers on his own. Togetherfather and son face the ultimate test of choosing between what their heads tell them is true and what their hearts know is right. In this masterful story of a young man and a town on the cusp of changebeloved novelist William Kent Krueger shows that some mysteries can be solved even as others surpass our understanding.