"The thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. "Issues" is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. The vote is four to one in favor. Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers...

"Two seemingly unrelated murders lead Detective Quay Thompson of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension through a series of twisted trails from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to the Minnesota Boundary Waters of Lake Superior. The trail begins with the discovery of a young girl's body on the North Shore of Lake Superior. Her murder leads Thompson to a group he believes was also connected to his wife's unsolved murder the previous...

The true story of the search for 19-year-old Sadie Sullivan's killer. Jon Frederick first met Officer Xavier--Zave--Williams in 2013, but neither one of them knew that they would be working together in 2021 to find the killer of 19-year-old Sadie. The cold case came with a lot of gray--contaminated evidence, questionable court decisions, and two opposing hardened suspects. In the backdrop of modern-day Minneapolis, investigators are left to sort through...

"Murder in Winnebago County follows an unlikely serial killer plaguing a rural Minnesota county. The clever murderer leaves a growing chain of apparent suicides among prominent people in the criminal justice system. As her intuition helps her draw the case together, Sergeant Corinne 'Corky' Aleckson enlists assistance from her mentor and friend, Detective Elton 'Smoke' Dawes. What Corky doesn't know is the killer is keeping a close watch on her. Will...

"When a woman's emaciated body is found in a hunter's woods, Sergeant Corinne 'Corky' Aleckson is coaxed back into the field to assist Detective Smoke Dawes on the case. It seems the only hope for identifying the woman lies in a photo that was buried with bags of money under her body. Aleckson and Dawes plunge into the investigation that takes them into the world of human smugglers and traffickers, unexpectedly close to home. All the while, they are...

"When a man's naked body is found staked out in a farmer's soybean field, Sergeant Corinne Aleckson and Detective Elton Dawes are called to the scene. The cause of death is not apparent, and the significance of why he was placed there is a mystery. As Aleckson, Dawes, and the rest of their Winnebago Sheriff's Department team gather evidence, and look for suspects and motive, they hit one dead end after another. Then an old nemesis escapes from jail...

"A tryst of bondage. A lover's murder. Investigator Jon Frederick returns in a search to uncover the identity of a killer creeping through communities along I-94 in Minnesota, targeting couples who store their fetish photos online. The killer taunts Jon with hidden messages embedded in local media that lead him to Sonia, a young woman with a terrible secret."--From back cover. A tryst of bondage. A lover's murder. Investigator Jon Frederick returns...

"Bakery owner Hannah Swensen is leaving Lake Eden to help a friend in sunny California. But an unexpected phone call swiftly brings her back to a cold Minnesota winter...and murder... When Hannah learns that her sister Michelle's 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 Lonnie's innocence...

"Can three scrappy, single women of varied ages find happiness in a new travel business specializing in casino junkets? Or are all bets off when a murder is discovered after the tour bus arrives at the casino hotel? At fifty years of age Betty Chance found herself unemployed, divorced and penniless. Her husband of twenty-seven years had left her for an older, fatter woman (the one who covered his gambling debts). With her pretty niece Lori she opens...

"The discovery of an old Dodge Charger on the bottom of a Winnebago County lake turns into a homicide investigation when human remains are found in the car. To make matters worse, Sheriff Twardy disappears that same day, leaving everyone to wonder where he went. Sergeant Corinne Aleckson and Detective Elton Dawes probe into both mysteries, searching for answers. Little do they know they're being closely watched by the keeper of the Secret in Whitetail...