Tonight, The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library announced the winners for the 2012 Minnesota Book Awards. William Kent Krueger won the statue for Best Genre Fiction.
TAMARACK COUNTY by William Kent Krueger (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)
Other finalists:
THE BOOK OF KILLOWEEN by Erin Hart (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
THE COLD NOWHERE by Brian Freeman (Quercus)
WOLVES by Cary J. Griffith (Adventure Publications)
Huge kudos to Kent for this. After 13 books, the Cork series is as strong as ever.
