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    Trickster's Point
    Trickster's Point
    Trickster's Point
    Audiobook11 hours

    Trickster's Point

    Written by William Kent Krueger

    Narrated by David Chandler

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times best-selling author William Kent Krueger has won numerous accolades for his books, including the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. InTrickster's Point, the 12th suspenseful installment in Krueger's Cork O' Connor series, Cork is framed for the murder of Minnesota's first Native American governor-elect, Jubal Little. As Cork fights to clear his name and uncover the truth, he discovers that events from his own past may hold the key to the real killer's identity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 21, 2012
    ISBN9781464048210
    Trickster's Point
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    William Kent Krueger

    William Kent Krueger is the New York Times bestselling author of The River We Remember, This Tender Land, Ordinary Grace (winner of the Edgar Award for best novel), and the original audio novella The Levee, as well as nineteen acclaimed books in the Cork O’Connor mystery series, including Lightning Strike and Fox Creek. He lives in the Twin Cities with his family. Learn more at WilliamKentKrueger.com.

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    • 4/5
      This entry in the Cork O'Connor series tells the story of a murder of Cork's childhood best friend. It does so through a series of flashbacks and we learn a great deal about the youth of Cork that we did not know before. The mystery and the imagery were well done as always by Krueger, and this continues to be one of my favorite series.
    • 5/5
      Another great story from an excellent storyteller. In this book we get a lot of background on Cork's teenage years and a lot of great research on the Indians of the area. The author gives us likable characters and a very descriptive setting. The complex plot is fast moving and keeps you guessing through many twists and turns right on through to the surprise ending. I am glad to see that the family is moving on from Jo's death and Cork has a new woman in his life. This is one of my favorite series and I am looking forward to reading the next installment. I would highly recommend this series to those who love mystery thrillers with a touch of Indian history. This series should also be read in order as the books build one upon the other.
    • 5/5
      While bow hunting alone with Cork a rising politician is killed with a bow shot. At first O’Connor is accussed of being the shooter. Partly to clear his own name and partly from personal intensity Cork works to figure out hwho the shooter was. We learn of one of Jubal, a childhood friend of Corks who is one of those multitalented people who can accomplish everything he wants to. Cork feels he has been set up as the shooter. His invbestigation reveals the character of the man shot and his family as well as 2 other childhood friends of Cork: Willie and Winona. Trickster’s point is where Jubal was shot and dies. It was also the site of a location where Jubal and Cork had a showdown with a bully.There are at least three mysteries tangled together and each has its own solution - albeit there are threads linking all.
    • 4/5
      I love this series - it is so readable, so informative, so gooooood. Each installment sheds more background and history and ties in beautifully. William Kent Krueger is a Master storyteller.
    • 4/5
      Really enjoyed this one!!
    • 4/5
      Trickster's Point begins with the murder of Jubal Little, a powerful politician who is about to be elected the first Native American governor of Minnesota. Unlike Cork, who has Ojibwe blood. Jubal is a Montana Blackfeet who has combined his heritage, his football career, and his marriage into a prominent family into a successful political career. So his murder brings in an FBI agent who immediately suspects Cork, especially since Jubal was shot through the heart with Cork’s own deer-hunting arrow.

      The author tells this story through alternating scenes of past and present, showing how old experiences and youthful friendships have affected Cork and Jubal's relationship. Trickster's Point is an absorbing book with lots of twists and turns. Krueger is an author who isn't afraid to take chances with his characters. Cork continues to grow with each new entry in the series.





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    • 5/5
      4.5 stars. Another great read in this consistently fine series. I'll admit I was a little disappointed with the author because I had figured out the murderer and the motive about mid-book. Yeah, I was completely wrong and can't believe I fell for the red herring.

      I enjoyed this book because it included flashbacks of Cork's past -- his childhood and his teenage years, which have not been featured or referenced much in the series.

      This was not as much of a thriller in the way the last few books have been. There is no nail-biting suspense and big climactic scene. Instead this story read more like a puzzle, slowing putting piece by piece together until the whole picture comes into view.
    • 4/5
      William Kent Krueger continues to write books that mine the history and tradition of the Ojibwe for compelling mysteries set in the upper reaches of Minnesota. His characters created for each story serve as strident sharp notes that interrupt the usual rhythms and harmonics of Aurora and Tamarack County. Back-filling their stories adds substance and dimensions to Corks's early life and evolution from policeman to ogichidaa.
    • 4/5
      I like this author - I think he writes interesting detective stories and I like the back drop. Not a place in the country I know but it is another character in the novel.
    • 3/5
      Characters continue to mature, but there's a lot of moralizing in this one. I found it not as believable or enjoyable as earlier ones in the series. Still in all, a good solid detective story.
    • 3/5
      Fairly good book that I listened to on my long daily commute. To be honest, I would not read this book as it just didnt have that certain something that I need to have if I am to spend a few days of my life with my nose in it. It was a good story, good characters, had enough twists and intrigue to keep me interested and thinking, but its not outstanding in any way, but then again, I doubt that the author was shooting for anything outstanding. Outstanding requires sweat and blook and vulnerability of revealing a hidden part of the writers life. This is just a story. A story good enough to listen to in the car, but thats about it.
    • 5/5
      TRICKSTER’S POINT by William Kent KruegerIf you are looking for a literate mystery with well-developed characters and a convincing, challenging plot, this is the book for you. Krueger’s latest chapter in the life of his Cork O’Conner character will have you guessing until the last pages. Several characters from Cork’s past have reason to kill off Cork’s childhood friend, rising politician Jubal Little. When Little’s life is cut short in the middle of his gubernatorial campaign, Cork is the prime suspect until others reveal their animosity. Cork’s family and friends, as well as a few enemies, all come under suspicion in this tightly plotted mystery leavened with near poetic descriptions of the area around Trickster’s Point. The many layers to the mystery of Jubal’s death are only revealed in the final pages. An excellent way to spend some time with a fine author, Native American traditions and the northern reaches of Minnesota.5 of 5 stars
    • 5/5
      Cork O'Connor is sitting in the shadow of a towering monolith known as Trickster's Point deep in the Minnesota wilderness. With him is Jubal Little, who is favored to become the first Native American elected governor of Minnesota, and who is slowly dying with an arrow through his heart. Although the men have been bow hunting, a long-standing tradition among these two friends, this is no hunting accident. The arrow turns out to be Cork. As he works to clear his name and track the real killer, he remembers his long, complex relationship with the tough kid who would grow up to become a professional football player, a populist politician, and the lover of the first woman to whom Cork gave his heart. Jubal was known by many for his passion, his loyalty, and his ambition. Only Cork knows that he was capable of murder.
    • 2/5
      Predictable. Redundant . Nice scenery . Likable characters.
    • 4/5
      "Trickster's Point" is the 12th in Wm. Kent Krueger's series about Cork O'Connor, now a PI and former sheriff. I have read about half of the books in this series, and have found the most recent three to be rather good; my feelings about the earlier books are a bit mixed. But this is a series where a reader can start anywhere (you will likely uncover spoilers re earlier books though). As usual for me, I have a number of pluses and minuses about this one. The story is told somewhat in flashback style, and this one focuses on people and events Cork has known for 40 years, including his first love. Winona was then a young Indian girl, headstrong and attractive - and she favored not Cork, but another , Jubal Little who has political ambitions and plans. And there is Camilla whose family has money and whom Jubal eventually marries, and Rhiannon and Rainy and a host of others. The transition from past to present is seemless, so much better than most flashbacks and each jump is timed perfectly to match with the reader's need to know more history. Cork is the prime suspect in a hunting homicide, and the cast of possible suspects grows and grows until late in the book. There is another body as well and I felt that was a bit of an unnecessary over-complication. The story moves along at a brisk pace and Krueger mixes in a good bit of his usual Indian spiritualism. I understand this mysticism thing adds a good bit of local flavor but I feel sometimes it also is a bit much. Anyway, good climax, not overdone but I still have two more bones to pick. These stories have an aura of small town wholesomeness about them in their locale and characters' behaviors that feel unreal at times. And specifically re this book, I was disappointed in the character of Rainy, intoduced in the previous novel, "Northwest Angle". In NA she exhibited strong character, someone who does not suffer fools well, a tough woman, but an attractive one - in this story she does little more than ask a lot of questions and warm Cork's bed.
    • 4/5
      Cork O'Connor goes hunting with his childhood friend and politically ambitious Jubal Little.While hunting, Little is shot with an arrow and mortally wounded. When Cork stays with his friend through his friend's last moments, he becomes the main suspect.The story also tells of Jubal's goal to run for Minnesota governor and the childhood friendship between Jubal, Cork, and Winonah Crane, a woman Jubal loved.