WINDIGO ISLAND. by Krueger, William Kent - (2014)

New York:: Atria (Simon & Schuster),, (2014). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (lower corner of front board bumped with tear to dj) . First printing. The fourteenth thriller in the award winning Cork OÕConnor series. "When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper that it was the work of a deadly mythical beast, the Windigo, or a vengeful spirit called Michi Peshu. At the request of the Arceneaux family, Cork OÕConnor, former sheriff turned private investigator, takes on the case and puts enough information together to find a possible trail. He learns that the old port city of Duluth is a modern-day center for sex trafficking of vulnerable women, many of whom are young Native Americans." 339 pp.