Thunder Bay

The promise, as I remember it, happened this way.

Detective Cork O’Connor has left his badge behind and is ready for a life of relative peace, setting up shop as a private investigator in his hometown of Aurora, Minnesota. But his newfound calm is soon interrupted when Henry Meloux, an Ojibwe medicine man and Cork’s spiritual adviser, asks Cork to find the son Henry fathered long ago. With little to go on, Cork uses his investigative skills to locate Henry Wellington, a wealthy and reclusive industrialist living in Thunder Bay, Ontario. When a murder attempt is made on old Meloux’s life, all clues point north across the border. But why would Wellington want his father dead? This question takes Cork on a journey through time as he unravels the story of Meloux’s 1920s adventure in the ore-rich wilderness of Canada, where his love for a beautiful woman, far outside his culture, led him into a trap of treachery, greed, and murder. The past and present collide along the rocky shores of Thunder Bay, where a father’s unconditional love is tested by a son’s deeply felt resentment, and where jealousy and revenge remain the code among men. As Cork hastens to uncover the truth and save his friend, he soon discovers that his own life is in danger and is reminded that the promises we keep—even for the best of friends—can sometimes place us in the hands of our worst enemies.

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“Finest work.” — Michael Connelly