David Housewright, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-312-32149-9
Housewright's first mystery series (for which he won an Edgar) about Holland Taylor, a former St. Paul cop who became a smart-talking private eye, trickled out after three books. His new series is about Rushmore McKenzie, a former St. Paul cop...
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David Housewright, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-32151-2
In Edgar-winner Housewright's entertaining second noirish mystery starring Twin Cities ex-cop Rushmore "Mac" McKenzie (after 2004's A Hard Ticket Home
), an elderly family friend, Mr. Mosley, asks Mac to look into the mysterious...
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David Housewright, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-312-34829-8
In Edgar-winner Housewright's engaging third mystery to feature Twin Cities sleuth Mac McKenzie (after 2005's Tin City
), an old girlfriend who's now the wife of Minnesota governor John Barrett seeks Mac's help in finding the source...
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David Housewright, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-312-34830-4
In Edgar-winner Housewright's uneven fourth crime-solving adventure for Rushmore McKenzie (after 2006's Pretty Girl Gone
), the Twin Cities ex-cop turned millionaire blunders into a crime scene featuring a strung-out, blood-spattered Merodie
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David Housewright, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-37081-7
Hate, revenge and old-fashioned greed propel Edgar-winner Housewright's stellar fifth mystery to feature former St. Paul, Minn., cop Rushmore McKenzie (after 2007's Dead Boyfriends
). When the older grade school–age daughter of McKenzie's old...
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David Housewright, Author . Minotaur $24.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-312-37082-4
In Edgar-winner Housewright's enjoyable sixth novel to feature PI Rushmore “Mac†McKenzie (after 2008's Madman on a Drum
), graduate student Ivy Flynn, last seen in 2005's Tin City
, and her new boyfriend believe gold from a 1933 bank robbery...
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David Housewright, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (310p) ISBN 978-0-312-55996-0
Edgar-winner Housewright nicely confounds readers' expectations in his absorbing seventh hard-boiled mystery featuring ex-cop and millionaire Rushmore McKenzie (after 2009's Jelly's Gold
). After two men abduct McKenzie from his St....
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David Housewright, Author Foul Play Press $21 (295p) ISBN 978-0-88150-341-8
Murder intrudes on a Minnesota political campaign in this first outing for St. Paul PI Holland Taylor. A former cop, Taylor is suspected of murdering a drunk driver who killed his wife and child four years ago. Hunting the murderer to clear his own...
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David Housewright, Author Foul Play Press $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-88150-404-0
PI Holland Taylor is a former cop with an African American associate who covers his back, a high-level friend on the police force and a very smart lady who tries to keep him on the straight path. He also practices martial arts, brews exotic coffee...
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David Housewright, Author W. W. Norton & Company $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-04771-4
Sleazy lawyer Hunter Truman sends cop-turned-Twin Cities PI Holland Taylor after a missing woman in Housewright's disappointing third novel. Alison Emerton has either been murdered by Raymond Fleck, a convicted rapist who was stalking her, or has...
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David Housewright. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-64230-3
Rushmore McKenzie agrees to help Jason Truhler, the ex-husband of his lover, Nina Truhler, in Housewright's solid eighth novel featuring the Twin Cities ex-cop who occasionally does "favors" for friends (after 2010's The Taking of Libbie, SD). Jason
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David Housewright. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-64231-0
The theft of a fabulous sculpture, the Jade Lily, from the City of Lakes Art Museum propels Housewright’s excellent ninth mystery featuring Twin Cities PI Rushmore McKenzie (after 2011’s Highway 61). The “artnappers” are willing to sell the Lily...
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David Housewright. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-00960-9
Outstanding ingenuity and empathy mark Edgar-winner Housewright’s 10th mystery featuring millionaire St. Paul, Minn., ex-cop Rushmore McKenzie (after 2012’s Curse of the Jade Lilly). As part of an ATF operation to recover stolen guns from the...
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David Housewright. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-00961-6
In Edgar-winner Housewright’s exceptional 11th novel featuring unlicensed Twin Cities PI Rushmore McKenzie novel (after 2013’s The Last Kind Word), Riley Brodin, the scion of a wealthy Minnesota family, hires McKenzie to find her new boyfriend, Juan
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David Housewright. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-04965-0
At the outset of Housewright’s arresting 12th McKenzie novel (after 2014’s The Devil May Care), a guy in a pickup truck dumps a woman’s bound body on a Twin Cities freeway in the midst of a snowstorm; ex-cop turned unlicensed PI Rushmore McKenzie...
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David Housewright. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-04966-7
The brazen theft of a Stradivarius violin known as the Countess Borromeo, valued at $4 million, provides Rushmore McKenzie with some ethical challenges in Housewright’s entertaining 13th mystery featuring the unlicensed St. Paul, Minn., PI (after...
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David Housewright. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-09451-3
Unlicensed PI Rushmore “Mac” McKenzie tackles perhaps his most complex case yet in Edgar-winner Housewright’s witty 14th Minnesota-based mystery (after 2016’s Stealing the Countess). Mac should have known from the outset that this was going to be a...
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David Housewright. Minotaur, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-09447-6
In Edgar-winner Housewright’s welcome fourth outing for St. Paul, Minn., PI Holland Taylor, last seen in 1999’s Dearly Departed, Holland tries to clear wealthy client Eleanor Barrington of fatally shooting Emily Denys, who was dating her son, Joel....
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David Housewright. Minotaur, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-09453-7
In this intriguing 15th novel featuring former St. Paul, Minn., cop Rushmore McKenzie by Edgar-winner Housewright (after 2017’s What the Dead Leave Behind), McKenzie, who’s now a millionaire with a penchant for off-the-books investigations, tries to
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David Housewright. Minotaur, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-09449-0
In Edgar winner Housewright’s gripping fifth Holland Taylor mystery (after 2018’s Darkness, Sing Me a Song), a coterie of Minneapolis’s top lawyers whose firms’ darkest secrets have been hacked hire the PI and his capable partner, Freddie Fredericks,
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David Housewright. Minotaur, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-21215-3
At the start of Edgar winner Housewright’s enjoyable 16th novel featuring PI Rushmore “Mac” McKenzie (after 2018’s Like to Die), Louise Wykoff, an icon of the Minnesota art world, hires Mac to retrieve three stolen paintings depicting her by...
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David Housewright. Minotaur, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-21217-7
Rushmore “Mac” McKenzie’s past comes back to haunt him, perhaps literally, in Edgar winner Housewright’s fun, fast-moving 17th outing for the onetime St. Paul, Minn., cop turned unlicensed detective (after 2019’s Dead Man’s Mistress). During a...
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David Housewright. Minotaur, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-75699-2
At the start of Edgar-winner Housewright’s routine 18th novel featuring Rushmore “Mac” McKenzie (after 2020’s From the Grave), Mac, a former St. Paul, Minn., cop turned unlicensed detective, is shot in the back by an unknown assailant outside a club.
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David Housewright. Minotaur, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-75701-2
Edgar winner Housewright’s entertaining 19th novel featuring unlicensed Twin Cities PI Rushmore McKenzie finds McKenzie, who nearly died after being shot in 2021’s What Doesn’t Kill Us, ready to retire. McKenzie’s wife, Nina Truhler, has other plans
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