(1999) Corcoran gets drawn into the search for Shiloh, a recording artist who has disappeared into the Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota. Her ?father? turns up to try to find her, seeming to be genuinely concerned. Turns out he is only concerned about the recording company Shiloh and her late mother created. He wants it and its profits only for himself, so his solution is to kill her leaving the company to him. KIRKUS: Krueger's second novel (Iron Lake, 1998) again features ex-sheriff Cork O'Connor of hardscrabble Aurora, Minnesota, and plenty of harsh weather. Here, a top-of-the-charts but depressed, ex-druggy country-western girl singer, Shiloh, disappears into the two-million acres of the Quetico-Superior Wilderness on the Canadian border. Cork, an old buddy of Shiloh's mother, whose murder remains unsolved, heads a search party that includes include two FBI agents, an ex-con, a ten-year old kid, and Shiloh's father. Permeating the tale is the spirit of the Anishinaabe Indians, while the heavy pelts on the muskrats point to a huge, bitter winter ahead. Meantime, some bad guys have tortured to death Wendell Two Knives, the Anishinaabe guide, trying to get him to tell where Shiloh has gone, since they want her just as badly as Cork's search party. Shiloh witnessed her mother's murder, then had amnesia, and through regression therapy seems to have brought up the killer. Was he her mother's lover, a Vegas casino owner named Benedetti, who now wants Shiloh dead? Does all this have to do with the Ojibwa's cash-rich Grand Casino on Iron Lake? Why was Shiloh's therapist murdered as well? Will Shiloh survive to rebuild Ozark Records into an outlet for indigenous music? Cork remains a spritely, intriguing hero in a world of wolves, portages, heavy weather, and worrisome humans, with a third entry on its way.Pub Date: May 11, 1999ISBN: 0-671-01698-9Page Count: 336Publisher: Pocket

Can't stand the feds - both as characters and as plausible law-enforcement guys. They're too vicious and skirt the law too quickly and aggressively. Not believable. If that wasn't bad enough, they're complete assholes and I said that if the asshole level didn't go down in these books, I'd quit them and I am. Done and done. ( )

He was a tough old man, the redskin. Milwaukee allowed himself of the dangerous luxury of admiring the old man fully. He was smart, too. But way too trusting. And that, Milwaukee knew was his undoing. Milwaukee turned away from the Indian and addressed the two men sitting by the campfire. "I can go on, but the Indian's not going to talk. I can almost guarantee it."

Reason read: this book was on the shelf, a book that was my husbands. It fit a TIOLI challenge so I decided to read it. The setting is my home country. I no longer live there. The setting was nostalgic and at times seemed overly full of ephemera details. The mystery was okay, I guessed the culprit well before the reveal. I did like the ending. ( )

Mystery, thriller, adventure, family drama, travelogue. This book has it all going on and had me turning pages as fast as I could. Country singer Shiloh has disappeared into the Boundary Waters wilderness of Northern Minnesota and her father recruits ex-sheriff, now burger stand owner, Corcoran O'Connor to help him find her. Then the FBI and the mob show up with their own motives to locating her and a local Native American and his young son are added to the expedition. Once the canoes head north, the bodies start stacking up and it becomes clear that there is more going on than a simple rescue.
The cast of characters are all strong and distinctly drawn, including Shiloh, who is not just a damsel in distress. The locations, action and Native American culture are vividly described. The plot twists are well-formulated and often surprising.
I liked the first book of this series because of its potential and its ties to Minnesota. I recommend this one because it is even stronger. ( )