Blood Hollow (Cork O'Connor, #4) in 2-3-4 Challenge

Apr 23, 2017 Jonetta rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-suspense-thriller, group-read, 17000-in-2017, author-of-the-week, audiobook, 4000-books

A young girl goes missing after a New Years Eve party and a search group sets out on snowmobiles to find her. Of course, Cork O'Connor is part of the search team and almost gets stranded in a whiteout blizzard. However, Charlotte Kane's body isn't discovered until four months later and her ex-boyfriend, Solemn Winter Moon, is the prime suspect. O'Connor's not convinced.

There are so many layers to this story and Krueger just weaves them together expertly. Who else could combine Indian mysticism ...more

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Apr 03, 2017 Angela rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, five-star-reads

This is another series that just gets better and better. Krueger uses the setting again to really give his story that extra magic. The reader really feels like they are in Aurora, Minnesota, USA as we move from winter into summer. Ex sheriff Cork O'Connor has a mystery on his hands to work out who killed a young high school woman. Can he save Solemn Winter Moon and prove his innocence? This time around mysticism plays a larger role than it has in previous books and it's up to the reader to work ...more

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Apr 13, 2017 Kris (My Novelesque Life) rated it really liked it

RATING: ★★★★1/2

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"When the corpse of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Year's Eve, all evidence points to her boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite Solemn's self-incriminating decision to go into hiding, Cork O'Connor, Aurora's former sheriff, isn't about to hang the crime on the kid, whom O'Connor is convinced is innocent. In an uphill battle to clear Solemn's name, Cork encounters no RATING: ★★★★1/2

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"When the corpse of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after her disappearance on New Year's Eve, all evidence points to her boyfriend, local bad boy Solemn Winter Moon. Despite Solemn's self-incriminating decision to go into hiding, Cork O'Connor, Aurora's former sheriff, isn't about to hang the crime on the kid, whom O'Connor is convinced is innocent. In an uphill battle to clear Solemn's name, Cork encounters no shortage of adversity. Some he knows all too well -- small-town bigotry and bureaucracy foremost among them. What Cork isn't prepared for is the emergence of a long-held resentment hailing from his own childhood. And when Solemn reappears, claiming to have seen a vision of Jesus Christ in Blood Hollow, the mystery becomes thornier than Cork could ever have anticipated. And that's when the miracles start happening.... " (From Publisher)

I rated the first novel three stars, and slowly have been going up half a star for each book ever. I thought I would stay at four stars for a few books, but wow this book was almost a five star. This book starts with a bang and almost like a race I kept wanting to read more and more. I was lucky that I was listening to this book when I had a day of chores. I listened to 75% of the book in one day. I liked that this book had more of the O'Connor family, and more of Rose. I am a HUGE fan of Rose. She is definitely the strength of the O'Connor family and also it's heart. Krueger and Cork describe Rose as smart and kind BUT also plain and overweight. I probably like Rose so much as I relate with her the most (other than Jenny for her love of poetry). I think Rose and Annie would be great detectives for a spin-off series - I like the quirkiness of Annie who compliments her aunt. The case in this book was also very fascinating as it uses big themes like religion, culture, love and secrets. Highly recommend this book and waiting patiently for May to read book five.

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Apr 30, 2017 Veronica rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-mystery

3.5 stars

Still a great series with solid, evocative writing but this one had one too many unlikely twists in it for me to accept. One or two would have been okay but four in one story stretched the credibility a little too far in my opinion.

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May 08, 2025 Connie rated it really liked it

I listened to this one and the narrator did a great job with all the different characters.

This has Cork trying to discover who murdered a young daughter of a prominent physician. It takes many twists and turns and there are some tense moments.

This has a little religious fanaticism and that is not a subject matter I enjoy. However, I did enjoy the journey of how Cork was able to solve these cases.

I am giving this one 4 out of 5 stars. I plan on listening to the next in the series.

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Jul 09, 2024 Sharon Kallenberger Marzola rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mystery, series, love-hero

I love this series. Cork is a great MC. I love the family dynamics in the series. What an unexpected twist. It caught me completely off guard. I will continue with the next book.

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