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Biography: David has worked as a journalist covering both crime and sports (sometimes simultaneously), an advertising copywriter and creative director, and a writing instructor. He has won both the Edgar Award and the Minnesota Book Award for his crime fiction. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Bush, Gary (editor) / Everheart, Chris (editor)
Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Murder, Mayhem, and Suspense
Signed ONLY by Reed Farrel Coleman. Twenty-four stories.
Contents
Perfectly Grimm: A Joe Pickett Story == C.J. Box
Time of the Green == Ken Bruen
Last Laugh == David Housewright
An Issue of Women and Money == Michael Stanley
Dumber Than Dirt == Libby Fischer Hellmann
The Snow Birds == Gary Phillips
Pinked Off == Maureen Fischer
Santa's Little Helper == Anne Frasier
The 17th Rule of Highly Effective Bank Robbers == Troy Cook
Puck == Pat Dennis
Why I Write Mysteries == Pete Hautman
Eddie's Dungeon == Chris Everheart
Contender == William Kent Krueger
Den of Iniquity == Lori L. Lake
You Can Be Too Thin == Gary R. Bush
Jibber Jabber == Reed Farrel Coleman
The Surrogate == Anthony Neil Smith
Cat's Meow == Mary Logue
Uninvolved == Lois Greiman
Rage Against the Machines == Terri Persons
Flyover Land == Max Allan Collins and Barbara Collins
Signed by the author on the title page. Ages 13 and up. Thirteen-year-old James Richard McNulty has problems: his mother has just divorced his father; his grades are plummeting; bullies are menacing him on the school bus; the coach is threatening to kick him off the basketball team; and his 'girlfriend' thinks he's gone insane. Then he finds a suitcase filled with cash - and thinks all his problems are over.
Novel, 134 pages, Trade Paperback, Print on Demand
Down & Out Books - 2013 - ISBN: 1937495396 / 9781937495398
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New023689
$11.95
Housewright, David
Holland Taylor #1: Penance
When the drunk driver who killed Holland Taylor's wife and daughter is shot dead, Taylor is the obvious suspect. He didn't do it, but he means to find out who did.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 1996 Edgar Award for Best First Novel
Novel, 259 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1995)
Signed by the author on the half-title page. St. Paul PI Holland Taylor's parents ask him to investigate when their retired neighbor's investments vanish. He uncovers a real estate scam with roots deep in city politics - and a vicious killer hired to protect the secret.
Novel, 246 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1997)
Signed by the author on the title page. A woman has disappeared, leaving behind a tape saying that, if she's missing, it's because Raymond Fleck has killed her. Her lawyer hires St. Paul PI Holland Taylor to look for her. As he digs into her past, he learns that Fleck was not the only person who wanted her dead.
Novel, 251 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1999)
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2008 - ISBN: 0312370814 / 9780312370817
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
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ID: #New009487
$24.95
Housewright, David
Mac McKenzie #07: The Taking of Libbie, SD
Signed by the author on the title page. After being kidnapped and taken to the small town of Libbie, South Dakota - which just lost pretty much everything it had to a con man using McKenzie's name - McKenzie is determined to help the devastated townspeople, as well as catch the crook who has besmirched his reputation.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 23rd Annual Minnesota Book Award for Genre Fiction
Novel, 310 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2010 - ISBN: 0312559968 / 9780312559960
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
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ID: #New008389
$24.99
Housewright, David
Mac McKenzie #08: Highway 61
Signed by the author on the title page. Rushmore McKenzie is a former cop who occasionally does favors for friends as an unlicensed PI. Now his girlfriend's daughter asks him to help her father, Jason Truhler. Truhler was traveling up Highway 61 to a Canadian blues festival when he met a girl. He awoke hours later from a blackout, in a motel room with the girl's murdered body on the floor. He ducked out and headed back to St. Paul, thinking he'd got away - until he started getting texts with photos of the body and blackmail demands he couldn't pay. McKenzie soon learns that Truhler was set up to be blackmailed. But Truhler's version of events wasn't exactly the truth either. And McKenzie now finds himself trapped in the middle of a very dangerous game, with some of the most powerful men in the state on one side and some of the deadliest on the other.
Novel, 326 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2011 - ISBN: 031264230X / 9780312642303
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
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ID: #New012871
$25.99
Housewright, David
Mac McKenzie #09: Curse of the Jade Lily
Signed by the author on the title page. The insurance company that paid the settlement that made Mac rich wants a favor. There's been a theft at a local art museum - a valuable piece of jade with a history going back to the Qing Dynasty, rumored to bear a curse that has ruined or killed everyone who ever owned it. There's been a ransom demand. The only condition is that Mac has to be the go-between. He agrees to help, but what started out as a simple ransom becomes complicated when other parties - including the State Department and a mysterious woman calling herself Heavenly - ask Mac to turn the gem over to them. When the murdered body of one of the thieves turns up in a snow drift, it looks like the curse has claimed its latest victim. And there may be more to follow . . .
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 25th Annual Minnesota Book Award for Genre Fiction
Novel, 326 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2012 - ISBN: 0312642318 / 9780312642310
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
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ID: #New018065
$25.99
Housewright, David
Mac McKenzie #10: The Last Kind Word
Signed by the author on the title page. When the ATF gets a lead on a cache of illegal guns near the Canadian border, they ask McKenzie to go undercover to help get the gunrunners. What could possibly go wrong?
Novel, 309 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2013 - ISBN: 125000960X / 9781250009609
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
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ID: #New022918
$25.99
Housewright, David
Mac McKenzie #11: The Devil May Care
Signed by the author on the title page. Wealthy, powerful Walter Muehlenhaus' granddaughter Riley hires McKenzie when her new boyfriend Juan Carlos Navarre goes missing. Turns out Navarre doesn't own the house and restaurant he claimed to, and apparently has no traceable past - and that McKenzie isn't the only one looking for the man.
Novel, 294 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2014 - ISBN: 1250009618 / 9781250009616
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
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ID: #New027130
$25.99
Housewright, David
Mac McKenzie #12: Unidentified Woman #15
Signed by the author on the title page. The nearly lifeless body of a woman is dumped on the road right in front of Mac's car. She awakens with no memory. With few leads, detective Bobby Dunston turns to Mac for help identifying the woman, and finding out who dumped her and why.
Novel, 291 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2015 - ISBN: 1250049652 / 9781250049650
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
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ID: #New031132
$25.99
Housewright, David
Mac McKenzie #13: Stealing the Countess
Signed by the author on the title page. Unlicensed PI Mac McKenzie is brought in to recover a stolen Stradivarius, but no one except the violinist who has been playing it seems to want it found.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 29th Annual Minnesota Book Award for Genre Fiction
Novel, 294 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2016 - ISBN: 1250049660 / 9781250049667
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
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ID: #New034806
$25.99
Housewright, David
Mac McKenzie #14: What the Dead Leave Behind
Signed by the author on the title page. A favor for his stepdaughter, investigating the unsolved murder of her college friend's father, gets complicated when Mac uncovers a connection to another unsolved killing.
Novel, 310 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2017 - ISBN: 1250094518 / 9781250094513
Book Condition: New. Jacket Condition: New.
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ID: #New037589
$25.99
Housewright, David / Valois, Renee
The Devil and the Diva
Signed by both authors on the title page. When an international crime syndicate approaches her with a fraudulent proposition, Clarisse Dufresne refuses to participate. Rescued by the mysterious Maurice Crevier, who conceals both his face and his intentions behind an obsidian mask, she soon learns that she is not his guest, as he professes, but his prisoner. But against her better judgment, Clarisse feels a growing fascination and affection for her jailer, and for his odd henchmen, a Haitian voodoo practitioner and a young chef who is haunted by the ghost of her mother. Then a second attempt is made on Clarisse's life. And a third.
Novel, 257 pages, Trade Paperback, Print on Demand
Down & Out Books - 2012 - ISBN: 1937495264 / 9781937495268
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New018929
$17.95
Minnesota Crime Wave
Fifteen Tales of Murder, Mayhem, and Malice from the Land of Minnesota Nice
Fifteen stories by Minnesota crime writers. Some will scare you. Some will make you cringe. All will put to rest the myth of Minnesota Nice! If you read these before bed, don't expect sweet dreams.
Contents
Introduction == Pete Hautman
This Old House == Marilyn Victory
The Dark Under the Bed == Richard A. Thompson
Desperados == Michael Allan Mallory
Death by Potato Salad == Jess Lourey
Murder & Crossing == Mary Logue
An Age-old Solution == Lori L. Lake
Woman in Ice == William Kent Krueger
A Turn of the Card == David Housewright
Overstuffed == Ellen Hart
The Butler Didn't == Elizabeth Gunn
Iced == Lois Greiman
Minesota Iced == Pat Dennis
The Horse He Rode In On == Carl Brookins
Stone Arch Bridge == Judith Yates Borger
Blue-eyed Mary == Joel Arnold
Anthology, 172 pages, Trade Paperback, (no indication of edition)
Nodin - 2013 - ISBN: 1935666436 / 9781935666431
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New023658
$16.00
Minnesota Crime Wave
Resort to Murder
Thirteen mystery stories by Minnesota writers.
Contents
Introduction == Lorna Landvik
Hills Like White Rabbits == William Kent Krueger
The Locked Fish-cleaning House Mystery == Jess Lourey
14-A == Ellen Hart
Miss Behavin' == David Housewright
Out of the Jacuzzi, Into the Sauna == Scott Pearson
Mother's Day == Pat Dennis
A Fish Story == Carl Brookins
Leave No Wake == Joel Arnold
The Moose Whisperer == Deborah Woodworth
Cabin 6 == Barbara DaCosta
Bird of Prey == Michael Allen Mallory
The Body at Dust Bowl Lake == Moira Harris
Hunter's Lodge == Judith Yates-Borger
Anthology, 184 pages, Trade Paperback, (no indication of edition)
Nodin - 2007 - ISBN: 1932472479 / 9781932472479
Book Condition: New.
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$16.00
Minnesota Crime Wave
The Silence of the Loons
Thirteen mystery stories by Minnesota writers.
Contents
Introduction == R.D. Zimmerman
Holiday Murder at Harmony Lake == M.D. Lake
Loon Lodge == Mary Logue
Before Swine == William Kent Krueger
The Gates == Judith Guest
Root of the Matter == Monica Ferris
Mickey's Last Mark == K.J. Erickson
Norwegian Noir == Ellen Hart
A Winter's Tale == Carl Brookins
Take Me Out == Lori Lake
Waltz of the Loons == Deborah Woodworth
Confidential Sources == Kerri Miller
A Domestic Matter == David Housewright
Jake == Pat Dennis
Anthology, 224 pages, Trade Paperback, Later Printing
Nodin - 2005 - ISBN: 1932472363 / 9781932472363
Book Condition: New.
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ID: #New023751
$16.00
Schaper, Julie (editor) / Horwitz, Steven (editor)
Twin Cities Noir: The Expanded Edition
Eighteen crime stories set in Minnesota's Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Star of the North
Someday All of This Will Probably Be Yours == John Jodzio
