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61) American boy
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Language
English
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Description
On Thanksgiving Day 1962, the shooting of a young woman sets off a chain of unsettling events in Willow Falls, Minnesota, all revolving around Matthew Garth, who becomes obsessed with the shooting victim and with the lavish lifestyle of a local doctor's family.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When The Cookie Jar becomes the setting of a star-studded TV special about movies filmed in Minnesota, Hannah hopes to shine the spotlight on her bakerynot the unsavory scandal swirling around her personal life. But thats practically impossible with a disturbing visit from the shifty character she once believed was her one and only love, a group of bodyguards following her every move, and a murder victim in her bedroom. Now, swapping the crime scene...
63) Sins and needles
Author
Series
Needlecraft mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
66) Holy ghost
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls, for which the word "moribund" might have been invented. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would--until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: "I'll Do What I Can") and a buddy come up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. They'd heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary had turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of pilgrims. And all those...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Hannah learns that her sister Michelles boyfriend, Detective Lonnie Murphy, is the prime suspect in a murder case, she goes straight from a movie studio sound stage to the Los Angeles airport. Back in frigid Minnesota, she discovers that proving Lonnies innocence will be harder than figuring out what went wrong with a recipe. Lonnie remembers only parts of the night he went out to a local bar and ended up driving a very impaired woman home. He...
70) Field of prey
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Series
Language
English
Description
The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. He'd picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields: nice, private, and quiet. The only problem was . . . something smelled badlike, really bad. He mentioned it to a county deputy he knew, and when the cop took a look, he found a body stuffed down a cistern. And then another,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Embracing a sweet escape from her usual routine at The Cookie Jar, Hannah gets asked for her help in baking pastries at the local inn for a flashy fishing competition with big prizes and even bigger names. But the fun stops when she spots a runaway boat on the water and, on board, the lifeless body of the event’s renowned celebrity spokesperson…Famed TV show host Sonny Bowman wasn’t humble about his ability to reel in winning catches, and no...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking a woman named Dolores Morriseau, a stranger who had come to the healer for shelter and the gift of his wisdom. Meloux guides this stranger and his great niece, Cork O’Connor’s wife, to safety deep into...
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
""One of today's automatic buy-today-read-tonight series...thoughtful but suspenseful, fast but lasting, contemporary but strangely timeless." (Lee Child) In the extraordinary new Cork O'Connor thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author William Kent Krueger, the lives of hundreds of innocent people are at stake when Cork vanishes just days before his daughter's wedding. Since the violent deaths of his wife, father, and...
74) The current
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"When two young women leave their college campus in the dead of winter for a 700-mile drive north to Minnesota, they suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives in the icy waters of the Black Root River, just miles from home. One girl's survival, and the other's death--murder, actually--stun the citizens of a small Minnesota town, thawing memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river ten years earlier, and whose killer...
75) Home song
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
"High school principal Tom Gardner feels a sense of shock when he sees Kent Arens, a new transfer student. With one glance, Tom can see that this teenager is the son he never knew he had-the result of a one-night stand on the eve of his wedding years before, now grown into an intelligent, athletic, and polite young man. But the boy's presence has a devastating effect on Tom's family. As the Gardners careen toward disaster, they test the foundation...
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Series
Lake Wobegon volume 12
Publisher
Prairie Home Productions
Language
English
Formats
Description
The chronicle of another chapter in the life and times of the residents of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota. Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millenial entrepreneurship, meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals of five classmates.
77) Bloodline
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Following her fiance to the picture perfect town of Lilydale, Minnesota, pregnant journalist Joan Harken soon realizes that something is dangerously off in this seemingly picture-perfect village where someone is watching her every move.
78) Hunter's moon
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
"Joining his friendBud and Bud's sensuous new wife, Jesse, on a hunting expedition, former Special Forces Commando Harry Griffin is forced to kill Bud's stepson when the latter attempts to kill his stepfather."--
A novel of friendship, sex and violence, starring Harry Griffin, a graphic artist and former Green Beret from St. Paul, Minnesota. He is invited by Bud, an old friend, to a country lodge for some hunting and ends up in bed with Bud's wife....
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