William Kent Krueger

"Locked in a tight battle for reelection, President Clay Dixon knows that the best chance for victory is the popularity of his wife Kate. But the disenchanted First Lady is about to desert him. When an orchard accident seriouly injures Kate's father, a retired senator and former vice-president, she returns to the family farm in Minnesota to be at his side. Assigned to protect her, Secret Service agent Bo Thorson soon falls under Kate's spell. Bo suspects...

Back on the beat as sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork O'Connor has already seen his beautiful Northwoods jurisdiction through an eventful summer. Now, as the chill of autumn sweeps through the countryside, he's about to face a season of murder, adultery, and deceit that will take him from seedy backwoods bars and humble reservation shanties to the highest and most corrupt echelons of Chicago society. Lured to the nearby Ojibwe reservation on what appears...

Tamarack County Sheriff Cork O'Connor investigates the high-profile murder of a powerful Chicago businessman. When he's then targeted by a sniper, O'Connor must move through a maze of murder, adultery, and deceit.

1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...

On Memorial Day, 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, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the results...

Gala presentation - May 5, 2007 and winning author interviews with: Taner Akcam, Dianne E. Gray, William Kent Krueger, Jude Nutter, Regula Russelle and CB Sherlock, Matthew Sanford, Julie Schumacher, Maureen Millea Smith, Diane Wilson.

Welcome to the wide world of paranormal pastimes, where striking out might strike you dead. Editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner announce this story collection of the most peculiar plays ever made. These fourteen authors have written spirited, in more ways than one, new tales of killer competitions that would make even the most die-hard players ask to be benched. These and eight more supernatural sporting stories are guaranteed to have you...