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![Cover Art: Resort to Murder : [thirteen More Tales of Mystery By Minnesota's Premier Writers]](http://content.hclib.org/perl/syndetics/syndetics.pl?isbn=9781932472479/MC.GIF&client=hennp)
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Resort to Murder : [thirteen More Tales of Mystery By Minnesota's Premier Writers] Anthology of mystery stories set in a Minnesota resort and written by Minnesota authors, including Lorna Landvik, David Housewright, and William Kent Krueger. 2007 Adult Mystery Book RESORT | |
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The Silence of the Loons In these thirteen short stories, some of Minnesota's premier crime writers, including Ellen Hart, Judith Guest, William Kent Krueger, and Carl Brookins, serve up a chilling array of whodunits. Introduction by R. D. Zimmerman. 2005 Adult Mystery Book SILENCE | |
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Twin Cities Noir Mystery stories by Minnesota authors David Housewright, Steve Thayer, Judith Guest, Mary Logue, Bruce Rubenstein, K.J. Erickson, William Kent Krueger, Ellen Hart, Brad Zeller, Mary Sharratt, Pete Hautman, Larry Millett, Quinton Skinner, Gary Bush, and Chris Everheart. 2006 Adult Mystery Book TWIN | |
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Anderson, Gerald D. Death Before Dinner: An Otter Tail County Mystery Every August, Dr. George Gherkin (the Fergus Falls MN State University president) hosts a faculty party, serving his own signature dish. When Professor Gherkin is found dead in his kitchen, all the guests are suspects - Gherkin wasn't very popular. Can a brand new sheriff with little experience solve the case? Ya, sure, you betcha! 2007 Adult Fiction Book ANDERSO | |
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Brookins, Carl. The Case of the Greedy Lawyers When a woman approaches diminutive Sean Sean, a Minneapolis detective for help, he shrugs off the incident. But after he is called to identify her at the morgue, events take a more sinister turn. Being assaulted and warned to mind his own business doesn't stop him from discovering some strange goings on in his hometown. 2005 Adult Fiction Book | |
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Compton, Jodi The 37th Hour Minnesota cop Sharon returns home to find her husband, also a cop, has disappeared. As she investigates, she realizes she may never have really known him. Unfortunately her worst fear - that he is dead - may actually be less painful that what happens next. 2004 Adult Fiction Book COMPTON | |
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Davidson, MaryJanice Undead and Unemployed Betsy Taylor may be the new Queen of the Vampires, but she still has bills to pay. She gets a job selling designer shoes at Macy's, which takes care of her lust for shoes and her bills. But when vampires are being staked all over St. Paul, Betsy must enlist the help of the one vamp who makes her blood boil--the sexy King of the vampires, Sinclair. 2004 Adult Fiction Book DAVIDSO | |
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Dunlap, Jan, 1955- The Boreal Owl Murder An avid birder with a well-earned reputation for spotting birds, Bob has a natural talent for counseling high school drama queens and an unfortunate knack of discovering dead bodies. Bob has set his sights on finding the elusive Boreal Owl in the Superior National Forest, but when he stumbles across a corpse instead, his hunt for the owl becomes entangled with a shady tree supplier, an environmental activist who looks like his mother, academic rivalries, and dangerous deer hooves. 2008 Adult Fiction Book | |
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Enger, L. L. Undiscovered Country While hunting in the cold Minnesota woods, 17-year-old Jesse Matson's life is forever changed when he discovers his father, dead by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. But would easygoing Harold Matson really kill himself? If so, why? And just where was Jesse's uncle Clay--always jealous of Harold, and a bit too friendly with Jesse's mother--that cold afternoon? 2008 Adult Fiction Book | |
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Erickson, K. J. Alone at Night Detective Marshall "Mars" Bahr and his partner, Nettie Frisch, are in the Cold Case Unit, working on unsolved cases for the Mpls. Police Department. In one of their first cases, an investigation ties into the 1989 disappearance of a convenience store clerk in Redstone, MN. The case begins to hit home as there is someone still at large who will do anything to cover up their tracks. 2004 Adult Mystery Book ERICKSON | |
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Ferris, Monica Sins and Needles Betsy Devonshire owns a needlework store in small town MN. When one of her loyal customers is accused of murdering her aunt, Betsy is determined to help clear her name. And an embroidered flag leads her to wonder if there is really buried treasure in Lake Minnetonka.... 2006 Adult Mystery Book FERRIS | |
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Fluke, Joanne Cherry Cheesecake Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery with Recipes Hannah Swenson keeps Lake Eden, MN happily fed with cookies and sweets at her bakeshop. When a nasty director shoots himself on a movie set in the bucolic town, Hannah wonders if it was really an accident. It's doubtful - someone switched a prop gun for a real one. 2006 Adult Mystery Book FLUKE | |
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Freeman, Brian Immoral Lieutenant Jonathan Stride is suffering from an ugly case of deja vu. For the second time in a year, a beautiful teenage girl has disappeared off the streets of Duluth, Minnesota. The two victims couldn't have been more different. As the media hounds Stride to catch a serial killer, he comes across secrets that affect everyone's lives - even his own. 2005 Adult Mystery Book FREEMAN | |
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Gunn, Elizabeth, 1927- McCafferty's Nine : a Jake Hines Mystery In a mid-size city in Southeastern Minnesota, Chief of Detectives Jake Hines has all his investigators working at top speed. Somebody's stealing cash and charging merchandise to dozens of local credit card holders, in the same month when a purse-snatcher is assaulting women. Jake recruits two teams to run stings in the mugger's favourite hunting-grounds. One of the teams attracts a hit and catches the mugger, but at the same time Jake is confronted with an identical-seeming crime in another part of town. 2007 Adult Fiction Book | |
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Gust, Bob Liars Dice Dixon Donnelly, a Minneapolis corporate attorney with a struggling practice and a marginal love life, takes on a case that he believes is a simple insurance coverage dispute. He soon finds himself drawn into a bizarre shooting incident in northern Minnesota, and thrust into the unfamiliar areas of criminal law and rural America. 2005 Adult Fiction Book GUST | |
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Hahn, Rob The Funeral Home Murders Would a Catholic priest be capable of brutally killing two individuals? Local police in Hudson, Wisconsin think so, after circumstantial evidence points to the priest as the prime suspect in a double shooting at the funeral home. Enter Sean Kelly, a brazen local television news reporter in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who through intuition, investagative reporting, and an anonymous source, helps the police investigation uncover the truth and gioudes the public perception of the murders and the prime suspect. What he uncovers tests his professional judgement and his strong Catholic faith. 2008 Adult Fiction Book | |
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Handberg, Ron. Cry Vengeance : a Novel Rookie television reporter Jessica Mitchell covers the castration and drowning death of a man who was a rapist that got away with it twice. His death and a demonstration by Take Back the Night, an antiviolence action group, pulls Mitchell into a close scrutiny of sexual crimes in the Twin Cities area. She soon discovers murders that may be the work of a vigilante group, set on revenge toward sex offenders when the legal system fails. 1993 Adult Fiction Book | |
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Hart, Ellen The Mortal Groove Minneapolis restaurateur and amateur sleuth Jane Lawless is surprised-when the biggest financial backers in Minnesota politics ask her father: How'd he like to be the state's next governor?" Ray Lawless, a retired defense attorney, agrees to run, but when reporters and opponents start digging dirt, he and his family are fair game. But worse than that, the men running his campaign are tied to the mysterious death of a young woman, buried since the summer they all came home from Vietnam. Unfortunately for Jane and her father, those secrets won't stay that way much longer. 2007 Adult Fiction Book HART | |
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Hautman, Pete, 1952- Ring Game Ex-cop Joe Crow has gotten on the bad side of his father's best friend, Axel Speeter. He introduced Axel's almost-daughter, Carmen Roman, to a character by the name of Hyatt Hilton, a onetime coke dealer and con man who claims to be walking the straight and narrow. Wedding bells are about to ring and Axel insists that Joe dust off his investigative skills to make sure the groom isn't selling any lines. 1997 Adult Fiction Book | |
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Hoag, Tami Prior Bad Acts Shortly after Minneapolis judge Carey Moore decides that the many "prior bad acts" of accused serial killer Karl Dahl can't be used in his trial, Dahl escapes from jail and someone attacks Moore. Homicide cops Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska are assigned to protect the judge, while more murders make the hunt for Dahl even more urgent. 2006 Adult Fiction Book HOAG | |
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