The William Kent Krueger Collection #1 Quotes

“In a way, he was afraid that to let go of the grieving would be to let go of his father forever.”
― William Kent Krueger, The William Kent Krueger Collection #1: Iron Lake, Boundary Waters, and Purgatory Ridge

“He thought often these days of the words that ended the traditional marriage ceremony of the Anishinaabeg. You will share the same fire. You will hang your garments together. You will help one another. You will walk the same trail. You will look after one another. Be kind to one another. Be kind to your children. He hadn’t always been careful to abide by these simple instructions. But a man could change,”
― William Kent Krueger, The William Kent Krueger Collection #1: Iron Lake, Boundary Waters, and Purgatory Ridge

“She’d been notoriously bad, had had a reputation among their Chicago friends for possessing a flair for the soggy, the lumpy, the burned.”
― William Kent Krueger, The William Kent Krueger Collection #1: Iron Lake, Boundary Waters, and Purgatory Ridge

“All the authors I read in those days—Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, Sara Paretsky, and, God bless him, Tony Hillerman—opened my eyes in so many important ways. What I discovered was that most mysteries have a very simple story structure. It goes something like this: In a mystery, typically speaking, the story begins with something happening. Usually this is a crime; very often it’s a murder. Investigation follows. And answers are found. That’s it. No formula, but a structure. More importantly, a very flexible structure within which an author is free to do almost anything. Check out the range of the crime genre today. There are historical mysteries, humorous mysteries, philosophical mysteries, dark mysteries, cozy mysteries. Hell, these days you can throw in vampires and werewolves, if that’s what you like. The point is that the reach of the genre is so broad it can embrace any interest a writer or reader might have. I like this. It feels very egalitarian to me. There’s good reason the crime genre is called popular fiction.”
― William Kent Krueger, The William Kent Krueger Collection #1: Iron Lake, Boundary Waters, and Purgatory Ridge