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Pub. Date
2020.
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"While Hannah speeds through a lengthy holiday checklist, drama in town grows like Santa's waistline on Christmas Eve. Her sister Andrea wants to stave off the blues by helping out at The Cookie Jar, Michele's love life is becoming complicated, Lisa needs Hannah's advice, and Delores has a Christmas secret she's not willing to share. But nothing dampens the holiday mood more than the chilling mystery surrounding the man found near death in an abandoned...
2) Shock wave
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When protests about a superstore chain's plans to build a location in a Minnesota river town escalate into bombing attacks at the construction site and the company's headquarters, Virgil Flowers races against time to find and stop the bomber.
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Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 24 cm.
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It's been a sleepy summer for Lake Eden, Minnesota, and Hannah is helping with her mother's wedding plans. When she accidentally hits a stranger with her truck she's wracked with guilt and things get worse when she's arrested for murder. Now Hannah needs to identify the deceased, find the murderer, and still get to the church on time.
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Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she’s been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in her family for decades, and while Mariel’s grandmother embraced the business, seeing it as a saving grace, Florence never took to it. When Mariel inherited the...
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Jake Hines mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Physical Desc
185 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
When a family feud between Minnesota farmers ends up with one of them dead, Detective Jake Hines must find the killer.
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2008
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viii, 324 p. ; 22 cm.
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Murder comes to town when, during her business partner's family reunion, a long-lost uncle is found dead with two slices of Hannah's infamous carrot cake next to his body, a discovery that soon becomes a recipe for disaster.
11) Bloody genius
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At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of science and medicine. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then a renowned and confrontational scholar winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate . . . and as he probes the recent ideological unrest, he soon comes to realize...
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Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
viii, 303 p. ; 22 cm.
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Rumour has it that "Lunatic Larry" Jaeger is in the red--an idea that takes a sinister turn when Hannah discovers the man himself dead as a doornail in his own office. It seems quite a few people would have liked to fill Larry's stocking with coal and then bash him with it. With so many suspects to investigate and 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...
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Pub. Date
2009
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Margie Krebsbsch's husband, Carl, has been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. Hoping to reawaken his interest in romance, Margie plans a trip to Rome with the expressed purpose of tending to the neglected grave of Gussy Norlander, a Lake Wobegon boy who died in the liberation of the city in 1944. But what begins as a trip for two becomes a modern-day Canterbury Tales as more and more Wobegonians decide to go along.
14) The devil's bed
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Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
x, 470 pages ; 18 cm
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A disillusioned First Lady abandons her husband mid-reelection campaign and returns to her Minnesota hometown, where she is stalked by an escaped mental patient.
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Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
xiv, 512 pages ; 22 cm.
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After 17-year-old Charlotte Kane-the beautiful, brilliant, and brooding daughter of a rich widower-disappears on a drunken New Years' Eve snowmobile ride, a raging blizzard soon snuffs out all search efforts. When her body is found during the spring thaw four months later, preliminary evidence implicates her ex-boyfriend-Ojibwe bad-boy, Solemn Winter Moon. But then a second Charlotte Kane turns up dead, and Cork isn't sure of anything any more.
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After an extravagant honeymoon, Hannah's eager to settle down in Lake Eden and turn domestic daydreams into reality. But when her mother's neighbor is discovered murdered in the condo downstairs, reality becomes a nightmarish investigation. Victoria Bascomb, once a renowned stage actress, was active in the theater community during her brief appearance in town . . . and made throngs of enemies along the way. Did a random intruder murder the woman as...
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Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 357 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Discovering a murdered teen while stranded by a gale on the remote Lake of the Woods, detective Cork O'Connor and his daughter, Jenny, also discover a mysterious baby boy whose life is threatened by powerful adversaries.
18) Deadline
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"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...
19) Controlled burn
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Sent to spend the summer with her grandparents in Northern Minnesota after a devastating fire destroyed her home, Maia must overcome her guilt, anxiety, fear, and self-doubt to save those she loves most when danger strikes again.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm
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While staying with his rough-and-tumble cousins and older sister Brunhilde in Minnesota, Erik Sheepflattener, whose inner Viking motto is Avoid Stuff, must learn to speak up for himself when Brunhilde tries to conquer all of his fears.
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