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21) Buried prey
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Back in 1985, two girls disappeared, and fledgling cop Lucas Davenport couldn't get over it, even when his boss declared the case closed. Now a house has been torn down, the bodies of two girls wrapped in plastic have been found, and Davenport is back on the case.
22) Invisible prey
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Parragon
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
558 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Description
Investigating the seemingly open-and-shut double homicide case involving a pair of wealthy elderly women, Lucas Davenport begins to suspect that the handful of small items that were stolen from the crime scene may have had more significant values.
23) Sweet poison
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Jane Lawless mysteries volume 16
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
viii, 307 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Struggling to juggle her career as a restaurateur while working on her father's campaign for governor, Jane Lawless turns sleuth once again when an opponent charges her father, a former defense attorney, with allowing criminals to roam the streets at the same time that one of the volunteers on the campaign is found murdered.
24) Madman on a drum
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Series
Rushmore McKenzie mysteries volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
McKenzie, a former cop and now a unlicensed P.I. handles the million dollar ransom drop-off for the kidnapped daughter of his friend homicide cop Bobby Dunston. They suspect a childhood pal is involved, and discover the truth of this when the child is returned safely but their old friend is found brutally murdered.
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
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280 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
Nine-year-old Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St. Bernard, Bigfoot, take long walks through their Minneapolis neighborhood one hot summer, and she seeks the courage to finish a book that could have an unhappy ending.
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
249 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
27) Dream country
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
335 pages, 21 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Spanning two centuries and two continents, Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people caught in a spiral of death and exile between Liberia and the United States"--
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Effie Galanos' goals for her senior year include her navigating her way through her high school that is not really wheelchair-friendly, getting into the perfect college, and getting her crush Wilder to accompany her to the prom--but by spring she is beginning to see herself entirely differently.
29) Broken prey
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Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
10 CDs (ca. 11.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Lucas Davenport confronts a living nightmare ... The first body is of a young woman, found on a Minneapolis riverbank, her throat cut, her body scourged and put on display. Whoever did this, Lucas knows, there is something wrong with him. This isn't a bad love affair. The second body is found three weeks later, in a farmhouse six miles south-- except this time it is a man. A suspect emerges early: a man recently released from a prison hospital who...
30) Silken prey
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At 1:15 a.m, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he's waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, "Hey, I think he's breathing," and another voice says, "Yeah? Give me the bat." And that's the last thing he ever knows. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man's disappearance, then--very troublingly--to...
31) Field of prey
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"The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. He'd picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields: nice, private, and quiet. The only problem was?something smelled bad--like, really bad. He mentioned it to a county deputy he knew, and when the cop took a look, he found a body stuffed down a cistern. And then another,...
32) Rules of prey
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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."
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Nora Trier catches thieves. As a forensic accountant and partner in her downtown Minneapolis firm, she's unearthed millions in every corner of the world. She prides herself on her independence, the most essential currency of accounting, until her firm is hired by Strike. An anti-corporate, feminist athletic empire, Strike is owned by Logan Russo, a brash and legendary kickboxer, and her marketing genius husband, Gregg Abbott. They're about to host...
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Jane Lawless mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
x, 320 p. ; 22 cm.
36) Snow blind
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
4 CDs (ca. 4 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
37) Chosen prey
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
357 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport takes on a murder case involving an art history professor who is a suspect in a serial murder case involving the murder of women who have modeled for photographs.
38) Naked prey
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Moving with his boss to state-level cases, Lucas Davenport, having recently become the head of a family, investigates the hanging deaths of an African American man and a white woman, a case that proves more complicated than it appears.
39) The grave soul
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"When Guthrie Hewitt calls on restaurateur and private investigator Jane Lawless, he doesn't know where else he can turn. Guthrie has fallen for a girl-Kira Adler. In fact, he was planning to propose to her on Christmas Eve. But his trip home with Kira over Thanksgiving made him uneasy. All her life, Kira has been haunted by a dream-a nightmare, really. In the dream, she witnesses her mother being murdered. She knows it can't be true because the dream...
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A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year...
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