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81) Little girl gone
Author
Series
Afton Tangler volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Minneapolis P.D. family liaison officer Afton Tangler investigates the abduction of a baby from an affluent suburb on a frozen night that disturbingly reveals how the case is related to those of other stolen children.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger delivers yet another "punch-to-the-gut blend of detective story and investigative fiction" (Booklist, starred review) as Cork O'Connor and his son Stephen work together to uncover the truth behind the tragic plane crash of a senator on Desolation Mountain and the mysterious disappearances of several first responders. This is a heart-pounding and devastating mystery the scope and consequences...
Author
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Iverson is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has...
84) The winter room
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
103 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.
85) Gone to dust
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Investigating a murder complicated by the killer's strategic approaches to confounding all possible DNA evidence, private detective Nils Shapiro is forced by FBI interference to secretly uncover the potentially shattering identity of a mysterious woman.
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Atria Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community.
87) The bone house
Author
Series
Cab Bolton volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her husband, a former teacher, is wrongly accused of a local murder after a scandal involving one of his students, Hilary Bradley resolves to prove his innocence and finds a lone supporter in quirky detective Cab Bolton, who confronts shocking local secrets.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair"--
89) The land
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Recovering from a terrible auto accident just before the turn of the millennium, college dropout and hobbyist computer-game programmer Lucien Swenson becomes the caretaker of a house in northern Minnesota. Lucien sets out to find a missing woman he had been having an affair with, who vanished along with money stolen from the bank where they had worked together. His search will take him to Rose of Sharon, a white supremacist church deep in the wilderness,...
90) The quarry girls
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it's not all fun and games. Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw in the dark. Something they can't forget. They've decided to never tell a soul. But their vow is tested when their friend disappears--the second girl to vanish in...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
ix, 307 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration has come to town, and even among local artisans, athletes, and marching bands, Hannah attracts fans of her own while serving lip-smacking pink lemonade desserts. But the mood sours when a body turns up, leading revelers to wonder if the festivities mark both the longest day of the year and the deadliest... A retired professional MLB player has met a terrifying end--and, considering the rumors swirling about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
327, [2] p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson must rely on the magical abilities of her felines, Owen and Hercules, to solve the senseless murder of Agatha Shepherd, a seemingly kind-hearted elderly woman.
95) Blood hollow
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor volume 4
Language
English
Description
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....
96) The miner's lady
Author
Series
Publisher
BETHANY HOUSE, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Chantel's sister falls in love with a sworn enemy in the their 1890s iron-mining community, will Chantel's attempts to aid the couple result in a romance of her own?"--Provided by publisher.
98) Brood: a novel
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Our nameless narrator stubbornly tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive and safe over the course of one savage winter in Minnesota. Woefully unprepared for the task, she battles the relentless predators, severe weather and unforeseen bad luck--all the while grieving a recent miscarriage, and coming to terms with her infertility and the accompanying uncertainty that her future holds. Intimate and startlingly original, this slender novel...
99) Shadow girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The brutal murder of a business tycoon leaves Afton Tangler and the Twin Cities reeling, but that's just the beginning of a gruesome crime spree ... Leland Odin made his fortune launching a home shopping network, but his millions can't save his life. On the list for a transplant, the ailing businessman sees all hope lost when the helicopter carrying his donor heart is shot out of the sky. Now with two pilots dead and dozens injured, Afton Tangler,...
100) The miner's lady
Author
Series
Land of shining water volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"When Chantel's sister falls in love with a sworn enemy in their 1890s iron-mining community, will Chantel's attempts to aid the couple result in a romance of her own?"--Provided by publisher.