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• Spirit Crossing

  a Novel

  Krueger, William Kent

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  #1 - The disappearance of a local politician's teenaged daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O'Connor's grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman--but nobody seems that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Grey Wolf

  Penny, Louise

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  #2 - A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Gamache reading "this might interest you", a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list--and then a murder. All propel Chief Inspector Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lethal Prey

  Sandford, John, 1944 February 23-

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  #3 - Doris Grandfelt was brutally stabbed to death... but nobody knew exactly where the crime took place. Her body was found the next night, dumped along the edge of an urban park, eight miles east of St. Paul, Minnesota. Despite her twin sister…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Waiting

  a Ballard and Bosch Novel

  Connelly, Michael, 1956-

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  #4 - The LAPD detective's badge and gun are stolen from her car while she's surfing. In the process of getting them back, she uncovers evidence that an extremist group is planning a terrorist attack in Malibu and enlists her friend Harry…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The River We Remember

  a Novel

  Krueger, William Kent

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  #5 - On Memorial Day, 1958, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nightshade

  a Novel

  Connelly, Michael, 1956-

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  #6 - L.A. County sheriff's detective Stilwell has been transferred to Santa Catalina Island after running afoul of higher-ups. At first, Stilwell resents being exiled, but he learns there's plenty to keep him busy after the body of a young woman is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Frozen River

  a Novel

  Lawhon, Ariel

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  #7 - Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Apostle's Cove

  a Novel

  Krueger, William Kent

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  #8 - A few nights before Halloween, as Cork O'Connor gloomily ruminates on his upcoming sixtieth birthday, he receives a call from his son, Stephen, who is working for a nonprofit dedicated to securing freedom for unjustly incarcerated inmates.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Quiet Librarian

  Eskens, Allen, 1963-

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  #9 - Hana Babic is a quiet middle-aged librarian in Minnesota who wants nothing more than to be left alone. But when a detective arrives with the news that her best friend has been murdered, Hana knows that something evil has come for her, a dark…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Solve Murders

  Osman, Richard, 1970-

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  #10 - Retired police officer Steve Wheeler is content with his quiet life in an English village. His daughter-in-law Amy thrives on the adrenaline rush of her life as a bodyguard. Her latest assignment is protecting Rosie D'Antonio, the world's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Battle Mountain

  a Joe Pickett Novel

  Box, C. J.

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  #11 - Wondering if the civilized life left him vulnerable to attack, Nate dropped off the grid with his falcons in tow to prepare for vengeance. When Joe gets a call from the governor asking for help finding his son-in-law, who has gone missing in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Them Bones

  Housewright, David, 1955-

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  #12 - There are two things that Rushmore McKenzie hates to turn down--a request from a friend and a challenge. Both of them show up in his wife's nightclub in the person of Angela Bjork, who has come to request McKenzie's help. McKenzie, was once a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Man in the Water

  Housewright, David, 1955-

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  #13 - It all starts with the body in the water--on what should be the first boat day of the season, McKenzie's wife Nina finds a dead Army vet. As the dock owner and the insurance companies claim that it was suicide, despite the deceased, E.J.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Iron Lake

  Krueger, William Kent

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  #14 - Cork O'Connor has lost both his wife and his job as sheriff and falls into a profound emotional isolation. As a wild blizzard buries his lakeside town, a despised though influential resident is found dead, and a young Ojibwe Indian boy seems…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Thursday Murder Club

  Osman, Richard, 1970-

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  #15 - In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club.

• The Blue Hour

  a Novel

  Hawkins, Paula

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  #16 - Welcome to Eris: an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Now or Never

  Thirty-one on the Run

  Evanovich, Janet

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  #17 - She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie Plum has two fiancés and no idea what to do about it. But the way things are going, she might not live long enough to marry anyone. While Stephanie stalls for time, she buries…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Big Empty

  Crais, Robert,

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  #18 - Traci Beller was thirteen when her father disappeared in the sleepy town of Rancha, not far from Los Angeles. The evidence says Tommy Beller abandoned his family, but Traci never believed it. Now, ten years later, Traci is a high-profile…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bullet That Missed

  Osman, Richard, 1970-

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  #19 - A decade-old cold case--their favorite kind--leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers. Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot.

• Where They Last Saw Her

  a Novel

  Rendon, Marcie R.

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  #20 - While running on a reservation in northern Minnesota one snowy morning, young mother Quill hears a woman's piercing scream in the woods. After rushing to check out the scene--first alone, then with the help of a tribal cop--all she turns up is…Read moreRead more of this annotation