Elizabeth Gunn, Author . Walker $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3356-6
To describe Gunn's (Five Card Stud, etc.) fourth Hines novel as outstanding may be an understatement. Its prose is crisp as a cracker. On a typical cold, gray February day in Rutherford, Minn., everybody seems to be in a bad mood. Chief of...
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Elizabeth Gunn, Author . Walker $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3374-0
Gunn fashions a yarn as taut as a short story with all the tension of a clenched fist in her fifth Jake Hines police procedural, after last year's superb Six-Pound Walleye. It's impossible to exaggerate her narrative skill. A bizarre crime&#x
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Elizabeth Gunn, Author . Forge $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0806-1
In Gunn's engaging sixth police procedural to feature Rutherford, Minn., police captain Jake Hines (after 2002's Seventh-Inning Stretch
), Jake is thrilled that smalltime hood Benny Niemeyer, implicated in the kidnapping and murder of IBM...
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Elizabeth Gunn, Author . Severn $27.95 (218p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6574-8
This promising first of a new series from Gunn (McCafferty's Nine
and eight other Jake Hines police procedurals) introduces Sarah Burke, a newly minted Tucson, Ariz., homicide detective. When a jogger discovers a stabbing victim, Sarah's...
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Elizabeth Gunn, Author . Severn $28.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6732-2
Det. Sarah Burke gets a lesson about Arizona’s struggling construction industry and family greed in Gunn’s taut second police procedural to feature the Tucson cop (after 2008’s Cool in Tucson
).
When someone shoots arts patron...
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Elizabeth Gunn, Author . Severn $27.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6824-4
Rutherford, Minn., population 100,000, isn't usually a hotbed of crime, but there's more than enough to keep police captain Jake Hines scrambling in Gunn's satisfying seventh novel to feature Hines (after 2007's McCafferty's
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Elizabeth Gunn, Author Walker & Company $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3307-8
Responding to a call to the local softball field, Rutherford, Minn., police detective Jake Hines is shocked to find a young male corpse, wearing an unmarked, musty player's uniform, lying spread-eagled, his missing genitals replaced by a bat. On the
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Elizabeth Gunn, Author Walker & Company $22.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3324-5
Jake Hines, the newly appointed chief of detectives in blue-collar Rutherford, Minn. (pop. 100,000), seems overwhelmed with a spate of crimes. But as this busy and engaging mystery quickly shows, the unassuming officer can, with a little help from...
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Elizabeth Gunn, Author Walker & Company $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3343-6
One stormy night in Rutherford, Minn., police detective Jake Hines (of Triple Play and Par Four) and his buddies are comfortably ensconced in a poker game when an urgent call comes in about a half-naked man found dead in a snowbank. As Jake...
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Elizabeth Gunn, Severn, $28.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6961-6
Stoic Sarah Burke, financially hard hit by a bad divorce, investigates two cases in Gunn's middling third mystery to feature the 13-year veteran of the Tucson Police Force (after 2009's New River Blues). A friend and former partner, Artie Mendoza,...
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Elizabeth Gunn. Severn, $28.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8116-8
Sarah Burke looks into a botched drug stash house raid that results in five bodies and a house filled with bullet holes in Gunn’s engaging fourth mystery featuring the Tucson, Ariz., homicide detective (after 2011’s Kissing Arizona). A quick police...
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Elizabeth Gunn. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8236-3
In Gunn’s solid ninth Jake Hines mystery (after 2010’s The Ten Mile Trials), Det. Jake Hines and his Rutherford, Minn., police team find themselves busier than ever, despite the approaching Thanksgiving holiday, after a murdered man turns out to be...
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Elizabeth Gunn. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8367-4
Sarah Burke and her fellow officers look into an unusual police shooting in Gunn’s diverting fifth procedural featuring the Tucson, Ariz., homicide detective (after 2012’s The Magic Line). In a confrontation with a suspect, rookie cop Dan Spurlock...
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Elizabeth Gunn. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8496-1
Burgeoning agri-economic growth and a spate of petty crimes concern the residents of Rutherford, Minn., in Gunn’s smart, twisty sixth Jake Hines mystery (after 2014’s Red Man Down). Apparently, persons unknown are clearly upset with the efforts of...
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Elizabeth Gunn. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8648-4
Gunn’s enjoyable sixth Sarah Burke police procedural (after 2014’s Red Man Down) finds the Tucson, Ariz., homicide detective, her mother, boyfriend Will, and niece Denny settled under the same roof. It’s the Fourth of July, and before Sarah can get...
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Elizabeth Gunn. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8776-4
Retired school teacher Alice Adams, the heroine of this underwhelming series launch from Gunn (Denny’s Law and five other Sarah Burke police procedurals), works part-time at the Guardian, a newspaper in Clark’s Fort, Mont., where her 22-year-old...
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Elizabeth Gunn. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9049-8
Gunn’s workmanlike seventh Sarah Burke mystery (after 2016’s Denny’s Law) takes the Tucson, Ariz., homicide detective and her temporary new partner, Zivko “Bogey” Boganicevic, to Fairweather Farms, an upscale senior living facility. Earlier in the...
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