Lightning Strike

An instant New York Times bestseller,this prequel to the acclaimed Cork OΓÇÖConnor series is ΓÇ£a pitch perfectrichly imagined story that is both an edge-of-your-seat thriller and an evocativeemotionally charged coming-of-age taleΓÇ¥ (Kristin Hannah#1 New York Times bestselling author) about fathers and sonssmall-town conflictsand the events that 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 ΓÇ£brilliant achievementand one every crime reader and writer needs to celebrateΓÇ¥ (Louise Penny#1 New York Times bestselling author)beloved novelist William Kent Krueger shows that some mysteries can be solved even as others surpass our understanding.