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Purgatory Ridge (Cork O'Connor #3) by William Kent Krueger (Author), David Chandler (Narrator)

There is a battle brewing for the ancient two-hundred-acre expanse of great white pines, near the town of Aurora. The Anishinaabe call these great white pines Minishoomisag, meaning Our Grandfathers and these trees are sacred to them. Lumbermill owner, Karl Lindstrom, wants these trees and the surrounding area for his logging operation while聽ecological activists from the other side of the country want no trees to be touched and are bringing their fight to the area.聽

On the home front, Cork and his wife are together again, although their marriage still suffers from all that has gone before. When the sheriff asks for Corks assistance in finding who was behind the lumberyard explosion that killed the night watchman, Cork's acceptance puts him at odds with his wife and the聽Anishinaabe. It doesn't help matters that there are rumors afloat that many townsfolks want Cork to run for sheriff again.聽

Then the ante is upped when Cork's family is threatened. It's hard to tell where the danger is coming from because there are so many players in this story. There is a shipwreck survivor who holds a long time grudge against the Lindstrom family, there are the eco activists that possibly put nature above the life of humans, and there are members of the Anishinaabe who want to put an end to the threat of their sacred trees being destroyed by the greed of the white man. At the same time, even those who want to save the sacred trees are against the people who want to stop all trees cutting because so many of them need their lumber jobs to survive.聽

Not so many dead bodies this time but the tension is high. It was hard to figure out who caused the explosion because so many people have means and motive. Throughout the story, overshadowing the fight of men against men, are raging forest fires and threats of more fires to come.聽