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Author
Series
Winnebago County mystery volume 7
Publisher
The wRight Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
The wRight Press first edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Barns are burning in Blackwood Township, and the Winnebago County Sheriff's Office realizes they have a firesetter to flush out. The investigation ramps up when a body is found in one of the barns. Meanwhile, deputies are getting disturbing deliveries. Why are they being targeted? It leaves Sergeant Corinne Aleckson and Detective Elton Dawes to wonder, what is the firesetter's message and motive?" -- Page [4] cover.
62) Murder by chance
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
63) The body keeper
Author
Series
Detective Jude Fontaine mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Jude Fontaine finds a decades-old connection to missing children that will freeze her blood. A boy's frozen body is found trapped in the ice of a Minneapolis lake. The horrifying discovery leads Detective Jude Fontaine and her partner, Uriah Ashby, to more bodies in the ice, all of twelve-year-old boys missing for twenty years. Then, in one of the worst blizzards the city has ever seen, a four-year-old is abandoned on Jude's doorstep. The...
66) Murder, she baked collection: A plum pudding mystery ; A peach cobbler mystery ; A deadly recipe
Publisher
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (257 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Free spirited cookie baker Hannah (Sweeney) Swensen jumps in to help handsome detective Mike Kingston track down culprits and uncover mysteries in Lake Eden, Minnesota.
A Plum Pudding Mystery: When a murder takes place at the local Christmas tree carnival, it seems there are quite a few suspects. With the twelve days of Christmas ticking away, Hannah's running out of time to nab a murderous Scrooge who doesn't want her to see the New Year.
A Peach...
67) For every evil
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Katie and Maverick cozy mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Secret Staircase Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas in Minnesota, a wonderful time for decorations, hot chocolate, snuggly blankets, caroling, and...fishing! Katie Wilk is celebrating her first Christmas with her dad since the horrific shooting that nearly claimed his life, and when they are invited to participate in their small town's ice-fishing tournament, they readily agree. But the ice is a treacherous place, and one of Katie's students accidentally falls through, creating a harrowing...
Author
Series
Katie and Maverick cozy mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Secret Staircase Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Christmas is fast approaching, but the joy and activity of the holiday season is marred by death. There's a history between Katie's landlady, Ida Clemashevski, and her neighbor, the elegant Grace Loehr. The two hadn't spoken in 40 years and had just recently made amends. But when they both bid on the same unusual art piece at the Holiday Gala, the claws come out again. Katie Wilk's idea is to have the artist simply make another of his intricate creations,...
Author
Series
Katie and Maverick cozy mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Secret Staircase Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After losing everything, Katie Wilk is starting life over in Columbia, Minnesota, with a new career--giving up cryptanalysis in favor of teaching school--and a canine companion, Maverick, a black Labrador retriever. But on one of their first outings, Katie and Maverick discover a dead body in a nearby marshland. Doctor Pete Erickson enters her life. As the county coroner, he's one of the first on the scene; as the doctor that day in the ER, he's...
Author
Series
Katie and Maverick cozy mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Secret Staircase Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Katie and Maverick are out for their walk when Maverick dashes through the moving gate at a self-storage facility and they get locked in. By the time the police respond to the silent alarms the pair have set off, the smell of exhaust fumes has begun to seep from one of the garage-sized units, and the car inside is quickly engulfed in a ball of flame. Was it a suicide that turned extra messy, or did someone rig the expensive sports car to explode and...
72) Weed Lake
Author
Publisher
Granny Edith Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
187 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hermiony Vidalia Criony Fiddlestadt, aka Granny, and Jezabelle Jingle are supersleuths in their own communities, Granny from Fuchsia and Jezabelle from Brilliant. Because they live only twenty miles apart in rural Minnesota, they are careful not to encroach on each other's territory. Granny and Jezabelle both believe a rivalry exists on who is the better crime solver. When Delight Delure, Granny's friend and Jezabelle's niece, sends them on vacation...
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Britta Baxter, beloved fitness influencer and estranged wife of a surgeon, gave up city life to start anew on their grandma's property overlooking Lake Shetek in southwestern Minnesota. After she convinces her cousin, Maxine Thomsen, to revisit the same lake where they'd spent their summers together as kids, Maxine is shocked to learn the boy she loved as a teenager lives across the same quaint bay. Although repairing the decades-old relationship...
Author
Series
Katie and Maverick cozy mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Secret Staircase Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Katie Wilk and her black Labrador retriever, Maverick, are training for Search and Rescue certification, and Katie is well into the school year with her math and science students. But a series of shocking events rock their small town--a teenage beauty queen is found dead in a state park, Katie's neighbor's three-year-old daughter is abducted, and Maverick's SAR certification exercise turns into a real emergency. Doctor Pete Erickson, the man Katie...
Author
Series
Winnebago County mystery volume ninth
Publisher
The wRight Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
The wRight Press edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a man finds his deceased wife's secret phone, her list of contacts sends him on a quest to uncover who caused her death. As he navigates his way into the dreary, drug-dealing world, danger holds a constant presence. The one bright pot in his life is his growing attraction for his canine patient's owner, Sergeant Corrine Aleckson. It's a relationship that will not blossom as he had imagined." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Preparations are underway for Lake Eden, Minnesota's annual Winter Carnival--and Hannah Swensen is set to bake up a storm at her popular shop, The Cookie Jar. But the honor of creating the official Winter Carnival cake went to famous lifestyle maven Connie Mac, who is bossy, bad-tempered and downright domineering. Things finally boil over when Hannah arrives at The Cookie Jar to find the Winter Carnival cake burnt to a crisp--and Connie Mac lying...
Author
Series
Winnebago County mystery volume 8
Publisher
The wRight Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
The wRight Press edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bodies marked with religious symbols are recovered from Coyote Bog, sending Sergeant Corinne Aleckson and Detective Smoke Dawes on a quest. Who buried them in the bog? They pore through missing persons' files, consult an FBI profiler, and are soon in pursuit of an angel of death.Their investigation leads them into uncharted and dangerous territory, but they'll stop at nothing to end the death angel's reign." -- Page [4] cover.