William Kent Krueger, Author, Jess Lourey, Author, Ellen Hart, Author . Nodin $16.95 (184p) ISBN 978-1-932472-47-9
The Minnesota Crime Wave’s entertaining second volume of short stories from Minnesota writers (after 2005’s The Silence of the Loons
) introduces some promising talent to a wider audience. Taking a somewhat darker tack than the previous...
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Jess Lourey, Author . Midnight Ink $14.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7387-1872-9
Lourey's lively fifth murder-by-month mystery (after 2008's August Moon
) finds Mira James, assistant librarian and part-time reporter for the Battle Lake Recall
, covering the beauty pageant to elect Milkfed Mary, Queen of the Dairy, at...
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Jess Lourey. Midnight Ink (www.midnightinkbooks.com), $14.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-7387-3136-0
Set in Battle Lake, Minn., Lourey’s seventh cozy featuring PI wannabe Mira James (after 2011’s October Fest) successfully combines humor, an intriguing mystery, and quirky smalltown characters. Mira, who supports herself by work at the local library
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Jess Lourey. Midnight Ink (www.midnightinkbooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-7387-3188-9
The innocuous Christmas candy cane assumes monstrous connotations when it becomes the calling card of a serial killer in Lourey’s wryly comic eighth Murder-by-Month mystery (after November Hunt). Librarian Mira James discovers to her dismay that not
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Jess Lourey. Midnight Ink (www.midnightinkbooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-7387-3875-8
In Lourey’s wry ninth Mira James outing (after 2012’s December Dread), the high-spirited heroine stays true to her pattern of finding a new homicide for every month that she lives in the tiny town of Battle Lake, Minn. This particular month’s case...
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Jess Lourey. Midnight Ink, $24.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7387-5755-1
Lourey’s follow-up to 2016’s Salem’s Cipher, a confusing mash-up of science, religion, romance, and spies, takes Salem Wiley, a cyber-analyst for the Black Chamber, a covert branch of the FBI, to England, where she seeks to discover the secret of...
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Jess Lourey. Thomas & Mercer, $15.95 trade paper (300p) ISBN 978-1-5420-0878-5
Set in Lilydale, Minn., in the 1980s, this heart-pounding crime novel from Lourey (Mercy’s Chase) is narrated by Cassie McDowell, who appears to be a normal 12-year-old with a crush on 13-year-old Gabriel Wellstone. Her family has a secret, though,...
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Jess Lourey. Thomas & Mercer, $15.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-5420-1631-5
In 1968, pregnant journalist Joan Harken, the narrator of this chilling mystery from Lourey (Unspeakable Things), is persuaded by her fiancé, Deck Schmidt, to move from Minneapolis to Lilydale, Minn., where Deck’s father is the mayor and, as head of
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Jess Lourey. Thomas & Mercer, $15.95 trade paper (316p) ISBN 978-1-5420-2701-4
Set in 1984, this harrowing tale from Edgar finalist Lourey (Bloodline) takes 14-year-old Francesca Vera Jubilee from Pasadena, Calif., where she lived with her botanist father until he died of a heart attack, to Litani, Minn., the home of her...
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