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Heaven's Keep (2009)

by William Kent Krueger(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1416556761 (ISBN13: 9781416556763)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Atria Books

series

Cork O'Connor

review 1: Heaven's Keep is a rock formation in the Wyoming Rocky Mountains. Cork O'Connor's wife Jo takes a flight to Seattle via Casper, Wyoming. The plane goes down in a terrible blizzard in the mountains, and Jo and the five other passengers are presumed dead.Six months after the crash, Cork discovers that the crash may not have been an accident but murder. As usual the characters are well-developed. Cork's son teenager Stephen makes great strides in growth to manhood thanks to help from an Objibwe elder Meloux. Again a good and quick read.
review 2: 2.5* A book worth reading, but as a longtime Kruger reader and fan, I feel cheated by this book. I was disappointed in the way that this plot unfolded and in the handling of opportunities for character development. I und... moreerstand that part of the "contract" between authors and readers is that we readers have to give authors some leeway to shape things in a certain perhaps less-than-realistic way or accept that authors may present characters doing somewhat outlandish things as though they were commonplace (e.g., isn't it convenient that Cork suddenly has a millionaire friend who can jet him back and forth to Wyoming?). However, I found myself in many places feeling like events or characters were forced and that I was seeing too much artifice and machination behind the wizard's curtain and not enough honoring of the characters that Krueger has painstakingly developed over a number of books in this series. **SPOILER ALERT HERE** I was particularly dissatisfied with the treatment of Jo's character and the depiction (lack thereof)of Cork's grief when he accepts that she must be dead. Since Jo dies in this book, and, I suppose, this will be her last chance to be a character of any substance plot-wise in the series, I felt that she had been cheated by there being so little of her in this book. I also found the skipping over of Cork's period of grief - suddenly it is six months later - to be a letdown. Here was a chance to develop more emotional depth for Cork in how he is affected by and how he handles his response to her death. Instead, just a fast-forward to figuring out the mystery of the plane's disappearance. less

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