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41) Missing Mark
Author
Series
Riley Spartz novels volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
TV reporter Riley Spartz pursues a curious story of a bride left at the altar and finds herself caught in a dangerous missing-person case.--From publisher description.
42) Mind prey
Author
Series
Prey series volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
43) Live bait
Author
Series
Monkeewrench volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
45) Fat cat at large
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Chase's cat, Quincy, leads Chase to the corpse of Gabe Naughtly, a business rival. When Chase is discovered at the murder scene, she becomes suspect number one.
Author
Series
Jane Lawless mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of Harpercollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, Atty and Cole have escaped their lives in Minneapolis, leaving judgmental parents and unsavory circumstances behind. Their getaway was anything but clean, however, and both of them are haunted and hounded by the mistakes of their pasts.
48) Original fake
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Frankie Neumann's an introvert, and he's always been the outsider in his family of performers, but all that's about to change once he finds an outlet for his artistic talents"--
49) Antelope woman
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Klaus Shawano abducts Sweetheart Calico, the seductive Indian woman who has stolen his heart, and takes her far from her native Montana plains to his own Minneapolis home, he cannot begin to imagine the eventual ramifications his brazen act will entail. Shawano's mysterious Antelope Woman has utterly mesmerized him--and soon proves to be a bewitching agent of chaos whose effect on others is disturbing and irresistible, as she alters the shape...
50) Winter prey
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Called in to assist the sheriff from a remote, rural area of Wisconsin in his investigation into a brutal triple homicide, Lucas Davenport begins to uncover a shocking series of vicious crimes that stun even Davenport with their evil intent.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jane's days at a midlevel Minneapolis insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She's just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth likes--meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man. No one has any idea who Jane really is. Least of all Steven. But plain Jane is hiding something. And Steven's bringing out the worst in her.
53) Monkeewrench
Author
Series
Monkeewrench volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Haunted by a series of horrifying and violent episodes in their past, Grace McBride and the oddball crew of her software company, Monkeewrench, create a computer game where the killer is always caught, where the good guys always win. But their game becomes a nightmare when someone starts duplicating the fictional murders in real life down to the last detail.
54) Problem child
Author
Series
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After a brutal childhood, Jane Doe has been permanently wired to look after herself and only herself. Now, looking next to normal, Jane has a lover and a job. But she hasn't lost her edge. It sharpens when she hears from her estranged family. Jane's deeply troubled sixteen-year-old niece, Kayla, has vanished, and no one seems to care. Neither does Jane. Until she sees a picture of Kayla and recognizes herself in the young girl's eyes. It's the empty...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Everyone thought Rashad May and Gideon Wise were happily married. That is, until Rashad was convicted of his husband's murder. Four years later, Rashad's brother contacts Ray Lawless--Minnesota private investigator Jane Lawless's father and the original defense attorney on the case --with potential evidence of a wrongful conviction. When the case is reopened, Jane and her father must work together to attain justice for a grieving widower. Who actually...
56) Night prey
Author
Series
Prey series volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
"A series of deaths leads to the possibility of a brutal serial killer of unusual skill and savagery. And if Lucas is right, the killer is just getting warmed up ..."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From National Book Award finalist and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), Charles Baxter, a timely and unsettling new novel about the people drawn to and unmoored by a local activist group more dangerous than it appears. Brettigan's son, a once promising actor, has gone missing, and despite the fact that his wife, Alma, knows he left on purpose, she has been searching for him all over the city. She checks the usual places, churches,...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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...
59) Ice cold heart
Author
Series
Monkeewrench volume 10
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's a bitter winter in Minnesota--too cold to kill. There hasn't been a murder for a month, but the lull quickly comes to an end for Detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth, when they're called to the gruesome homicide of Kelly Ramage. Found in a friend's vacant house, this was no random attack, and clues reveal that she was living a very dangerous secret life. Magozzi and Gino trace her steps back to an art gallery where she was last seen alive....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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 waśŒsomething smelled badĺike, 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,...
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