Victoria Houston, Author . Bleak House $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-932557-74-9
The body of a cranky heiress kick-starts Houston's uneven ninth installment in her backwoods Wisconsin series featuring spunky police chief Lewellyn “Lew” Ferris (after 2007's Dead Madonna
). Along with Paul Osborne, a retired...
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Victoria Houston, Tyrus (Consortium, dist.), $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-935562-26-9
In chapter two of Houston's lame 11th Loon Lake mystery (after 2009's Dead Renegade), an emergency call interrupts the romantic dinner Paul Osborne, a retired dentist turned forensic consultant, is sharing with Lewellyn "Lew" Ferris, the Loon Lake,...
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Victoria Houston, Author McGraw-Hill/Contemporary $17.95 (247p) ISBN 978-0-8092-4730-1
Houston, promotion director of the publishing house Andrew, McMeel & Parker, is among the rising number of women married to younger men. Divorced at age 35, she chose for her next husband ""Brant,' a man nine years her junior. Their union led...
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Victoria Houston. Tyrus (www.tyrusbooks.com), $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4405-3311-2
Reading Houston’s spare 12th Loon Lake mystery (after 2011’s Dead Deceiver) is like listening to a raconteur catching you up on the rural Wisconsin community, complete with contextual interjections and regionalisms (e.g., “razzbonya,” local...
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Victoria Houston. Tyrus (F+W Media, dist.), $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4405-3356-3
By the end of Houston’s slight but enjoyable 13th mystery set in Loon Lake, Wis. (after 2012’s Dead Tease), practically everyone in the small fishing town seems to have pitched in on a murder investigation. Lauren Crowell, an enterprising campaign...
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Victoria Houston. Tyrus (F + W Media, dist.), $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4405-6840-4
Smalltown police chief Lewellyn “Lew” Ferris has to deal with the same problems faced by urban communities, though with much fewer resources, as shown in Houston’s pleasing 14th mystery set in Loon Lake, Wis. (after 2013’s Dead Insider). A...
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Victoria Houston. Tyrus (F + W Media, dist.), $24.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4405-6848-0
Early in Houston’s satisfying 15th Loon Lake, Wis., mystery (after 2014’s Dead Lil’ Hustler), art enthusiast and wealthy widow Rudd Tomlinson walks out of the Grizzly Bear Café after her usual breakfast one cold March morning and is fatally hit by a
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Victoria Houston. Tyrus (F + W., dist.), $24.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4405-6845-9
In Houston’s amiable 16th mystery set in Loon Lake, Wis. (after 2015’s Dead Rapunzel), police chief Lewellyn “Lew” Ferris and her small team must deal with a big crime. Joyce Harmon, a janitor at a so-called gentlemen’s club, Buddy’s Place, alerts...
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Victoria Houston. Tyrus, $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4405-9880-7
Houston’s neatly crafted 17th Loon Lake mystery (after 2016’s Dead Loudmouth) offers plenty of Midwestern charm. On the last day of the Loon Lake Youth Fishing Tournament, someone sidles up to sporting goods mogul Chuck Pfeiffer, whose company...
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Victoria Houston. Gallery, $16 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-4405-9887-6
In Houston’s agreeable 18th Loon Lake mystery (after 2017’s Dead Spider), Loon Lake, Wis., police chief Lewellyn “Lew” Ferris faces a number of interrelated challenges. First, someone is cutting down and stealing groves of birch trees from private...
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Victoria Houston. Gallery, $16.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-4405-9883-8
Houston’s straightforward 19th mystery featuring Loon Lake, Wis., police chief Lewellyn “Lew” Ferris (after 2018’s Dead Firefly) opens with the fatal shooting of retired criminal defense lawyer and fervent bird watcher Lillian Curran while observing
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Victoria Houston. Crooked Lane, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-64385-800-5
In Houston’s appealing series launch, a spin-off from her Loon Lake fishing mysteries (Dead Big Dawg, etc.), police chief Lewellyn “Lew” Ferris juggles a race for Wisconsin’s McBride County sheriff and several cases that may or may not be related....
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Victoria Houston. Crooked Lane, $29.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-63910-147-4
Houston’s benign sequel to 2022’s Wolf Hollow finds Lew Ferris, newly elected sheriff of McBride County, Wis., up to her elbows in paperwork, case reviews, and personnel matters. To help with the workload, Lew hires Judith Hanson, a retiree who has...
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