Trickster's Point: A Novel (Cork O'Connor #12) [J0341]

2013 PB with minor wear. The action never stops in the New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor mystery series--and this time O'Connor is targeted by a political assassin. William Kent Krueger's latest New York Times bestseller is a thrilling exploration of the motives, both good and ill, that lead men and women into the difficult, sometimes deadly, political arena. The dying don't easily become the dead. 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 one of Cork's, and he becomes the primary suspect in the murder. He understands full well that he's been set up. 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 ever 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This book was fascinating. There were so many twists and turns that it seemed at times the characters themselves had no idea what what going on or who the killer or killers could be. This showed that sometimes friendship, and many times love, could be misconstrued by those involved."; "This felt different from the other books in the series for me. It was frequently reflective of events earlier in Cork's life, more so than previous books. In general they were about Jubal (who Cork sat with for 3 hours while he was dying) and people they both knew earlier in their lives such as Winona. Again, previous books tending to be about bad people doing bad things - this book is far less clear cut."; "A story of love and how it can turn destructive as well as nurture and add meaning to life. Gorgeous descriptive passages and wonderfully twisting plot around the many deaths that take place in this novel. Excellent."