Ed Hahn (USA: MT) (2009/03/05):
This is a first novel by an obviously talented author. I'm not sure I'd label it with the word "Horror", as some people have, no matter how horrible the killings in the book were. There is passing reference to a Native American spirit called Windigo but I was never convinced it actually existed but was rather an external manifestation of an internal state. The protagonist, Cork O'Connor is Native American and Irish, living in Northern Minnesota on the edge of an Indian reservation. He's an ex-sheriff and an ex- Chicago cop, so little bothers him except for unsolved mysteries and anything that threatens those whom he cares about. As the body count rises in Aurora, Minnesota, he becomes more and more involved mostly because he always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The plotting is excellent. I was not sure who was really at the root of all the killings until the last 10 pages. The characters are believable and human. The situations become less realistic as the story moves along but, by that time, I was so hooked I suspended my disbelief in the interests of finishing the book and finding out who had done what to whom. I can hardly wait to read the next in the series.
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