Order of William Kent Krueger Books

William Kent Krueger (known to his friends as “Kent”) is an American novelist of crime fiction. Kent is best known for writing novels featuring Cork O’Connor, who is half-Irish, half-Ojibwe. His novels are set in Minnesota, where Krueger himself lives. The setting of these novels is of great importance to the series.

Krueger’s first novel was Iron Lake, the first Cork O’Connor novel, and was published in 1998. Since then, his entire bibliography consists of Cork O’Connor books and are published at the rate of about once a year. Below is a list of William Kent Krueger’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Cork O'Connor Books

Iron Lake	(1998)
Boundary Waters	(1999)
Purgatory Ridge	(2001)
Blood Hollow	(2004)
Mercy Falls	(2005)
Copper River	(2006)
Thunder Bay	(2007)
Red Knife	(2008)
Heaven's Keep	(2009)
Vermilion Drift	(2010)
Northwest Angle	(2011)
Trickster's Point	(2012)
Tamarack County	(2013)
Windigo Island	(2014)
The World of Cork O'Connor	(2016)
Manitou Canyon	(2016)
Sulfur Springs	(2017)
Desolation Mountain	(2018)
Lightning Strike	(2021)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Devil's Bed	(2003)
Ordinary Grace	(2013)
This Tender Land	(2018)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Writing Murder

(2012)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The William Kent Krueger Reader's Companion

(2012)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Mystery Writers of America Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories About Love, Lust, and Murder	(2006)
These Guns for Hire	(2006)

Note: Writing Murder: A Basic Guide to Writing Mystery Novels was written with 14 other authors.

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