William kent krueger cork oconnor series
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‘Outlander’ Producers Nab TV Rights to Cork O’Connor Mystery Novels (Exclusive)
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Two producers of Starz’s forthcoming Outlander prequel are taking on a different long-running book series for their next TV project.
Story Mining & Supply Co., the production company founded by Jim Kohlberg, has acquired rights to Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor mystery thriller novels, about a half-Irish, half-Ojibwe sheriff turned private investigator in Minnesota. The company will adapt the books — there are 19 to date, with a 20th set to publish in August — for television and is currently meeting with writers. No outlet is attached yet.
Kohlberg and longtime partner Luke Parker Bowles, a former BAFTA East Coast chairman (and nephew of Britain’s queen consort), will executive produce the project along with Krueger.
“From the minute I cracked open Kent’s first book,
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A Note from Kent about
Spirit Crossing
It’s almost impossible for me to believe that with Spirit Crossing I will have published twenty-one books in my Cork O’Connor series. More than a quarter of a century ago, my dream of being a published author came true with the release of Iron Lake, the first in the series. If you’d asked me then if I thought there could possibly be twenty more, I’d have said you were nuts. But here we are.
Like so much of my work in the series, the story centers on an issue of great importance in the Native American community—Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP). Before I tackled the writing of this novel, I spoke with a number of my friends in the Ojibwe community, questioning whether, as a white guy, I had the right to deal with this subject. I heard from them nothing but encouragement. And so I’ve done my best to present a story that I hope is not only a compelling mystery but will also serve to broaden the awareness of this tragic situati
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Order of Cork O’Connor Books
Cork O’Connor is a fictional character created bygd American author William Kent Krueger who is featured in a series of mystery novels. Despite the very Irish name, Cork is only part-Irish; the other part being Ojibwe. The series is set in nordlig Minnesota, which is an area of largely mixed heritage.
The first Cork O’Connor book, Iron Lake, was published in 1998. Since then, Krueger has komma out with approximately one new book in the series every year. Below is the recommended reading order of William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor series: