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1) Cold blood
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of Clean Cut comes a suspenseful sequel to the Paris Murphy series.
Justice Trip is a hero. While helping volunteers search for a missing bridesmaid, he found a grisly clue: her finger. Now he’s enjoying his 15 minutes of fame.
When homicide detective Paris Murphy sees the tall, awkward Trip on television, she senses that he’s not the concerned citizen he’s pretending to...
Justice Trip is a hero. While helping volunteers search for a missing bridesmaid, he found a grisly clue: her finger. Now he’s enjoying his 15 minutes of fame.
When homicide detective Paris Murphy sees the tall, awkward Trip on television, she senses that he’s not the concerned citizen he’s pretending to...
2) Penance
Author
Series
Publisher
Foul Play Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Minneapolis PI investigates the murder of the man who killed his wife Holland Taylor is comfortable in interrogation rooms. For years the cold dark cells of the Minneapolis homicide squad were his turf, and with the help of his partner he wrung confessions out of countless killers. But that was long ago. Tonight Taylor is on the other side of the desk. Tonight he is the suspect. Taylor's career in the department ended after his wife and daughter...
3) Night prey
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Lucas Davenport comes up against an elusive thief who becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman and then carves her initials into his victims.
Author
Series
Publisher
Foul Play Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
287 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A real estate scam tips Holland Taylor off to a widespread, deadly conspiracy When a drunk driver kills her entire family, Florida retiree Irene Gustafson is left rich and alone. Between savings and life insurance, the death of her son and his family leaves her with nearly $300,000-a veritable fortune in a community where most live off social security. Following the advice of Ann Landers, Mrs. Gustafson hands the money over to an investment manager....
5) Tin city
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"Cecilia Ross is looking for a change. She has decided to take time off from her job as a successful motivational speaker and sell her home. She moves in to a beautiful old house in St. Paul, Minnesota, complete with a big front porch, a wild garden, a chef's kitchen--and three roommates. The four women are different ages, but all are feeling restless, and want to take a roadtrip to find again the people and things they miss. One woman wants to connect...
10) Madman on a drum
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
12) Silent snow
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In St. Paul, a boy vanishes in a copycat Lindbergh kidnaping, the abductor going as far as to mail the parents a $20 bill from the Lindbergh ransom. To find his son the boy's father, reporter Rick Beanblossom, turns for clues to old news coverage of the Lindbergh kidnaping.
13) Freedom
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.
14) False mermaid
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
318 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
American pathologist Nora Gavin fled to Ireland three years ago, hoping that distance from home would bring her peace. Though she threw herself into the study of bog bodies and the mysteries of their circumstances, she was ultimately led back to the one mystery she was unable to solve: the murder of her sister, Tríona. Nora can't move forward until she goes back - back to her home, to the scene of the crime, to the source of her nightmares and her...
15) A thread so fine
Author
Publisher
AIA Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"St. Paul, MN, 1946: As little girls, the Malone sisters relied on each other for companionship and affection as their mother remained distant, beating back the demons of her own mysterious childhood. Now young women, the closely-knit sisters endure separate tragedies that threaten to tear them apart. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, Shannon undergoes a life-saving hysterectomy while Eliza suffers a shameful, unexplained pregnancy. Eliza delivers and...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First University of Minnesota Press edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Swedish novelist Ola Larsmo's historical novel Swede Hollow follows a group of Swedish immigrants at the turn of the 20th century and their experiences trying to forge a life for their families in Swede Hollow, a collection of shacks in a wooded ravine on the edge of the emerging industrial city of St. Paul"--
17) Jelly's gold
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rushmore McKenzie, a retired St. Paul policeman and unexpected millionaire, often works as an unlicensed P.I., doing favors as it suits him. When graduate students Ivy Flynn and Josh Berglund show up with a story about $8 million in missing stolen gold from the '30s, McKenzie is intrigued. But they aren't the only ones looking. So are a couple of two-bit thugs, a woman named Heavenly, a local big-wig, and others. When Berglund is shot dead outside...
Author
Publisher
Highbridge Co
Pub. Date
p2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (4 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the 12th floor of the Acme Building, on a cold February day in St. Paul, Guy Noir looks down the barrel of a loaded revolver in the hands of geezer gangster Joey Roast Beef who is demanding to hear what lucrative scheme Guy is cooking up with stripper-turned-women's-studies-professor Naomi Fallopian. Everyone wants to know Joey, Lieutenant McCafferty, reporter Gene Williker, Guy's ex-girlfriend Sugar O'Toole, the despicable Larry B. Larry, the...
19) Judgment prey
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were shot in cold blood. A wealthy federal judge, there's no short list of people who could have a vendetta against Sands, but the gruesome murders, especially that of his children, turn their St. Paul community on its head. Sand was on the verge of a major donation to a local housing charity, Heart/Twin Cities, and with the money in limbo, eyes suddenly...
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