Tired of the politics, publicity and endless nights that go with major homicides, Detective Mars Bahr and his partner Nettie Frisch have moved to the Cold Case Unit, which covers the Minneapolis Police Department's oldest unsolved cases. One of their first assignments is tackling the murders of rural convenience store employees, which leads them to a sixteen-year-old missing person’s case. In 1986, seventeen-year-old Andrea Bergstad was working...

Terrified by her goth-associated daughter's disappearance and the signs of a deadly struggle in their home, a widow implores Lucas Davenport to use his connections to local authorities to expedite the investigation, which subsequently reveals the work of a serial killer.

Lucas Davenport and Clara Rinker, a hitwoman are tangled together again. It seems the hitwoman is the target of a hit and vows vengeance against a Mexican drug lord who murders her boyfriend and her unborn child. Davenport is supposed to find Rinker before she kills again.

The Republicans are coming to St. Paul for their convention, and crashing the party are a few hard cases the police would rather stayed away. Chief among them is a crew of professional stickup men who've spotted opportunities ranging from political moneymen with briefcases full of cash to that armored-car warehouse with the weakness in its security system. All that is headache enough for Lucas Davenport--but what's about to hit him is even worse.

Receiving an urgent message from hospitalized partner Andy Nolan's nephew, who is killed minutes later, restaurateur and private investigator Jane Lawless embarks on a solo quest to identify the culprit and the victim's link to other killings.

Lieutenant Lucas Davenport is determined to track down a diabolically clever serial killer who leads a double life, carefully picks out his female victims, and taunts the police with notes signed "Maddog."

When Rodion Oleshev, a man with ties to the highest levels of government, is found shot dead on the shore of Lake Superior, Lucas Davenport must take on the local cops, the FBI, and the Russians as he attempts to unravel the case.

Caring for an injured friend, restaurateur Jane Lawless discovers that her friend has been harboring a secret fear about a tragic accident that occurred years earlier and involves a suspicious reporter.