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Biography: Kent grew up in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. He briefly attended Stanford University before leaving to experience the 'real world', which included working as a logger, construction worker, freelance journalist, and researcher in childhood development. For the last couple of decades, he has made his home in St. Paul, Minnesota, with his wife and children.
Bush, Gary (editor) / Everheart, Chris (editor)
Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Murder, Mayhem, and Suspense
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 F. 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. Cork is caught in the middle of a gang dispute between the Aurora Anglos and the Ojibwe Reservation Red Boyz; the Red Boyz leader and his wife are found murdered.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 21st Annual Minnesota Book Award for Genre Fiction
Novel, 310 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Signed by the author on the title page. When a charter plane carrying Cork's wife goes missing in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies, Cork must accept the terrible truth that she is gone forever. But is she? When evidence shows the pilot was not the man he claimed to be, Cork heads to Wyoming, where he battles the interference of forces determined to throw him off the trail - permanently.
Novel, 320 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Signed by the author on the title page. When a charter plane carrying Cork's wife goes missing in a snowstorm over the Wyoming Rockies, Cork must accept the terrible truth that she is gone forever. But is she? When evidence shows the pilot was not the man he claimed to be, Cork heads to Wyoming, where he battles the interference of forces determined to throw him off the trail - permanently.
Signed by the author on the title page. Cork O'Connor is hired to head security when protests erupt after a local mine is shortlisted for storage of nuclear waste. His first day on the job, he stumbles across a secret room. Inside are the remains of six murder victims. Five appear to be old enough to be connected to a 1964 series of unsolved disappearances, when Cork's father was sheriff. One of them was killed with Cork's own gun, handed down to him from his father - as was the sixth body, which has been dead less than a week. Cork must dig into the darker parts of his family's past, and unravel the clues before more death comes to Tamarack County, Minnesota.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 23rd Annual Minnesota Book Award for Genre Fiction
Novel, 305 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2010 HC
Publisher's signed edition with signature page tipped in. Cork O'Connor is hired to head security when protests erupt after a local mine is shortlisted for storage of nuclear waste. His first day on the job, he stumbles across a secret room. Inside are the remains of six murder victims. Five appear to be old enough to be connected to a 1964 series of unsolved disappearances, when Cork's father was sheriff. One of them was killed with Cork's own gun, handed down to him from his father - as was the sixth body, which has been dead less than a week. Cork must dig into the darker parts of his family's past, and unravel the clues before more death comes to Tamarack County, Minnesota.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 23rd Annual Minnesota Book Award for Genre Fiction
Signed by the author on the title page. During a houseboat vacation on remote Lake of the Woods, a gale strands Cork and his daughter on an island. In an old cabin, they find the body of a teenage girl who has been tortured and killed. And in a nearby hiding place they find a hungry, dehydrated baby boy. In the Northwest Angle, pursued by powerful people intent on securing the child, Cork realizes that to save his family, he must solve the mystery surrounding the boy.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 24th Annual Minnesota Book Award for Genre Fiction
Novel, 357 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2011 HC
Signed by the author on the title page. During a houseboat vacation on remote Lake of the Woods, a gale strands Cork and his daughter on an island. In an old cabin, they find the body of a teenage girl who has been tortured and killed. And in a nearby hiding place they find a hungry, dehydrated baby boy. In the Northwest Angle, pursued by powerful people intent on securing the child, Cork realizes that to save his family, he must solve the mystery surrounding the boy.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 24th Annual Minnesota Book Award for Genre Fiction
Cork's wilderness bow hunting trip with Minnesota's first Native American governor-elect, Jubal Little, goes very wrong when Jubal is shot through the heart with one of Cork's arrows. Cork knows he's been set up, and as he works to clear his name and track the real killer, he recalls his long, complex relationship with Jubal, the Native kid who wanted to be a populist politician but grew into a man capable of treachery and murder.
Novel, 329 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2012 HC
Signed by the author on the title page. Cork's wilderness bow hunting trip with Minnesota's first Native American governor-elect, Jubal Little, goes very wrong when Jubal is shot through the heart with one of Cork's arrows. Cork knows he's been set up, and as he works to clear his name and track the real killer, he recalls his long, complex relationship with Jubal, the Native kid who wanted to be a populist politician but grew into a man capable of treachery and murder.
Signed by the author on the title page. As winter storms isolate Minnesota's sleepy Tamarack County, a vengeful force is at work, spinning a deadly web centered on a murder that occurred over twenty years ago. An innocent man may have been convicted, and Cork was the deputy in charge of the investigation that sent the man to prison.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 26th Annual Minnesota Book Award for Genre Fiction
Novel, 309 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
Atria - 2013 - ISBN: 1451645759 / 9781451645750
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Krueger, William Kent
The Devil's Bed
Signed by the author on the title page.
Novel, 470 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2003 HC
Pocket - 2003 - ISBN: 0743445856 / 9780743445856
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Krueger, William Kent
Ordinary Grace
In the summer of 1961, Frank Drum was thirteen, living in a small Minnesota town, with his Methodist minister father, artistic mother, talented sister, and kid brother. When tragedy unexpectedly comes to call on his family, Frank finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2014 Edgar Award for Best Novel
Novel, 307 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2013 HC
Atria - 2014 - ISBN: 1451645856 / 9781451645859
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Krueger, William Kent
Ordinary Grace
Signed by the author on the title page. In the summer of 1961, Frank Drum was thirteen, living in a small Minnesota town, with his Methodist minister father, artistic mother, talented sister, and kid brother. When tragedy unexpectedly comes to call on his family, Frank finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal.
Awards: ♦ Finalist for the 2014 Edgar Award for Best Novel
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
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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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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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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
