Jack Fredrickson, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-312-35168-7
In an impressive debut, Fredrickson introduces Vlodek "Dek" Elstrom, an intrepid investigator of Norwegian extraction who has neared bottom with his failed marriage and battered reputation. When a $3-million home explodes at Crystal Waters,...
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Jack Fredrickson, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-312-38092-2
Fredrickson delivers on the promise of A Safe Place for Dying
(2006), a Shamus Award finalist, with this fine follow-up. When an attorney informs PI Vlodek “Dek” Elstrom that he’s been named executor of the estate of Louise Thomas
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Jack Fredrickson. Minotaur, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-60526-1
In Fredrickson’s excellent third mystery featuring unlicensed—and certainly unorthodox—Chicago PI Dek Elstrom (after 2009’s Honestly Dearest, You’re Dead), Elstrom looks into the bizarre death of a clown who plunged off the roof of a building. Just...
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Jack Fredrickson. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-60527-8
Near the start of Fredrickson’s lively fourth mystery featuring Chicago insurance investigator Dek Elstrom (after 2012’s Hunting Sweetie Rose), Leo Brumsky, a close friend of Elstrom’s, receives a cryptic phone call from a man long presumed dead—a...
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Jack Fredrickson. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8435-0
The opening of this solid whodunit, based on a real-life murder case, is certainly an attention getter. When the authorities exhume the corpse of Betty Jo Dean, who was shot to death in Grand Point, Ill., decades earlier at the age of 17, they see...
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Jack Fredrickson. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8488-6
In Fredrickson’s complex fifth Dek Elstrom mystery (after 2013’s The Dead Caller from Chicago), somebody is murdering Chicago’s wealthiest movers and shakers in a manner that makes each death look like the result of either natural causes, suicide,...
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Jack Fredrickson. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8664-4
Del Elstrom uncovers ancient crimes and sordid secrets in Fredrickson’s well-paced sixth mystery to feature the witty, junk food–dependent PI (after 2015’s The Confessors’ Club). In need of a job to help pay for the renovation of his eccentric home...
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Jack Fredrickson. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8772-6
The discovery of a man’s lifeless body on top of a boxcar in a little-used railway siding drives Fredrickson’s well-crafted seventh mystery featuring wily, wise-cracking Chicago PI Dek Elstrom (after 2017’s Hidden Graves). Clues to the dead man’s...
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Jack Fredrickson. Severn, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8916-4
This strong series launch from Fredrickson (the Dek Elstrom series) introduces Milo Rigg, once “Chicago’s premier crime reporter.” Now, thanks to his involvement in a recent scandal, Milo has been reduced to writing “non-news, uncredited” for a...
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Jack Fredrickson. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5063-8
Fredrickson’s enjoyable eighth Dek Elstrom mystery (after 2018’s Tagged for Murder) finds the PI at a low point: hunting for a lost cat with a $100 reward on its furry head. Matters, however, are not so bad that Elstrom wants Martin Tripp as a...
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