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Regional Mysteries: U.S. Midwest

Authors & Titles

• Sidor, Steven: Booth City series
  
  1. Skin River
     
  2. Bone Factory
     

• Black, Michael A.: Ron Shade series
  
  1. A Killing Frost
     
  2. Windy City Knights
     
  3. A Final Judgment
     
  4. Dead Ringer (with Julie Hyzy)
     (NOTE: Dead Ringer also features Hyzy's Alex St. James, whose series is listed under Cozy Mysteries)
     
• Carter, Charlotte: Cook County series
  
  1. Jackson Park
     
• Chicago Noir (edited by Neal Pollack)
  
• Clark, Jack: Westerfield's Chain
  
• Cruse, Lonnie: Metropolis series
  
  1. Murder in Metropolis
     
  2. Murder Beyond Metropolis
     
  3. Married in Metropolis
     
  4. Malice in Metropolis
     
• Garland, Ardella: see Joe, Yolanda (below)
  
• Hellmann, Libby Rischer: Ellie Foreman series
  
  1. An Eye for Murder
     
  2. A Picture of Guilt
     
  3. An Image of Death
     
  4. A Shot to Die For
     
• Hellmann, Libby Rischer: Georgia Davis series
  
  1. Easy Innocence
     
  2. Doubleback
     
• Holton, Hugh: Larry Cole series
  
  1. Presumed Dead
     
  2. Chicago Blues
     
  3. Windy City
     
  4. Violent Crimes
     
  5. Red Lightning
     
  6. Left Hand of God
     
  7. Time of the Assassins
     
  8. The Devil's Shadow
     
  9. Criminal Element
     
  10. Revenge
      
• Joe, Yolanda (writing as Ardella Garland): Georgia Barnett series
  
  1. Details at Ten
     
  2. Hit Time
     
  3. Video Cowboys
     
• Zubro, Mark Richard: Tom and Scott series
  
  1. A Simple Suburban Murder
     
  2. Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead?
     
  3. The Only Good Priest
     
  4. The Principal Cause of Death
     
  5. An Echo of Death
     
  6. Rust on the Razor
     
  7. Are You Nuts?
     
  8. One Dead Drag Queen
     
  9. Here Comes the Corpse
     
  10. File Under Dead
      
  11. Everyone's Dead But Us
      
  12. Schooled in Murder
      

• Dams, Jeanne M.: Hilda Johansson series (1900)
  
  1. Death in Lacquer Red
     
  2. The Red, White and Blue Murder
     
  3. Green Grow the Victims
     
  4. Silence is Golden
     
  5. Crimson Snow
     
  6. Indigo Christmas
     

• McInerny, Ralph: Notre Dame series (aka Knight Brothers series)
  
  1. On This Rockne
     
  2. Lack of the Irish
     
  3. Irish Tenure
     
  4. The Book of Kills
     
  5. Emerald Aisle
     
  6. Celt and Pepper
     
  7. Irish Coffee
     
  8. Green Thumb
     
  9. Irish Gilt
     
  10. The Letter Killeth
      
  11. Irish Alibi
      
  12. The Green Revolution
      
  13. Sham Rock
      

• Collins, Max Alan: Mallory series
  
  1. No Cure for Death
     
  2. The Baby Blue Rip-Off
     
  3. Kill Your Darlings
     
  4. A Shroad for Aquarius
     
  5. Nice Weekend for a Murder
     
• Harstad, Donald: Carl Houseman series
  
  1. Eleven Days
     
  2. Known Dead
     
  3. The Big Thaw
     
  4. Code Sixty-One
     
  5. A Long December
     

• Hayes, J.M.: Mad Dog & Englishman series
  
  1. Mad Dog and Englishman
     
  2. Prairie Gothic
     
  3. Plains Crazy
     
  4. Broken Heartland
     
  5. Server Down
     
  6. English Lessons
     
• Weir, Charlene: Susan Wren series
  
  1. The Winter Widow
     
  2. Consider the Crows
     
  3. Family Practice
     
  4. Murder Take Two
     
  5. A Cold Christmas
     
  6. Up in Smoke
     
  7. Edge of Midnight
     

• Hamilton, Steve: Alex McKnight series
  
  1. A Cold Day in Paradise
     
  2. Winter of the Wolf Moon
     
  3. The Hunting Wind
     
  4. North of Nowhere
     
  5. Blood is the Sky
     
  6. Ice Run
     
• Heywood, Joseph: Grady Service series (aka Woods Cop series)
  
  1. Ice Hunter
     
  2. Blue Wolf in Green Fire
     
  3. Chasing a Blond Moon
     
  4. Running Dark
     
  5. Strike Dog
     
• Hills, Kathleen: John McIntire series
  
  1. Past Imperfect
     
  2. Hunter's Dance
     
  3. Witch Cradle
     
  4. The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies
     
• Holtzer, Susan: University of Michigan series (aka Anneke Haagen series)
  
  1. Something to Kill For
     
  2. Curly Smoke
     
  3. Bleeding Maize and Blue
     
  4. Black Diamond
     
  5. The Silly Season
     
  6. The Wedding Game
     
• Kisor, Henry: Stephen Martinez series
  
  1. Season's Revenge
     
  2. A Venture Into Murder
     
  3. Cache of Corpses
     

• Detroit Noir (edited by E.J. Olsen & John C. Hocking)
  
• Estleman, Loren D.: Detroit series
  
  1. Whiskey River
     
  2. Motown
     
  3. King of the Corner
     
  4. Edsel
     
  5. Stress
     
  6. Jitterbug
     
  7. Thunder City
     
• Estleman, loren D.: Peter Macklin series
  
  1. Kill Zone
     
  2. Roses Are Dead
     
  3. Any Man's Death
     
  4. Something Borrowed, Something Black
     
  5. Little Black Dress
     

• Gunn, Elizabeth: Jake Hines series
  
  1. Triple Play
     
  2. Par Four
     
  3. Five Card Stud
     
  4. Six-Pound Walleye
     
  5. Seventh-Inning Stretch
     
  6. Crazy Eights
     
  7. McCaffety's Nine
     
  8. The Ten-Mile Trials
     
• Housewright, David: Rushmore "Mac" McKenzie series
  
  1. A Hard Ticket Home
     
  2. Tin City
     
  3. Pretty Girl Gone
     
  4. Dead Boyfriends
     
  5. Madman on a Drum
     
  6. Jelly's Gold
     
• Johnson, Wayne: Paul Two Persons series
  
  1. Don't Think Twice
     
  2. Six Crooked Highways
     
• Krueger, William Kent: Cork O'Connor series
  
  1. Iron Lake
     
  2. Boundary Waters
     
  3. Purgatory Ridge
     
  4. Blood Hollow
     
  5. Mercy Falls
     
  6. Copper River
     
  7. Thunder Bay
     
  8. Red Knife
     
• Minnesota Crime Wave series:
  
  1. Silence of the Loons: Thirteen Tales of Mystery by Minnesota's Premier Crime Writers
     
  2. Resort to Murder: Thirteen More Tales of Mystery by Minnesota's Premier Crime Writers
     

• Marcy, Jean: Meg Darcy series
  
  1. Cemetery Murders
     
  2. Dead and Blonde
     
  3. Mommy Dearest
     

• Rosenberg, Joel: Ernest "Sparky" Hemingway series
  
  1. Home Front
     
  2. Family Matters
     

• Gaus, P.L.: Ohio Amish series
  
  1. Blood of the Prodigal
     
  2. Broken English
     
  3. Clouds Without Rain
     
  4. Cast A Blue Shadow
     
  5. A Prayer for the Night
     
  6. Separate From the World
     
  7. Harmless as Doves
     
• Harper, Karen: Amish Home Valley series
  
  1. Fall From Pride
     
• Short, Sharon: Josie Toadfern series
  
  1. Death of a Domestic Diva
     
  2. Death By Deep Dish Pie
     
  3. Death in the Cards
     
  4. Hung Out to Die
     
  5. Murder Unfolds
     

• John, Cathie: Kate Cavanaugh series
  
  1. Add One Dead Critic
     
  2. Beat a Rotten Egg to the Punch
     
  3. Carve a Witness to Shreds
     

• Roberts, Les: Milan Jacovich series
  
  1. Pepper Pike
     
  2. Full Cleveland
     
  3. Deep Shaker
     
  4. The Cleveland Connection
     
  5. The Lake Effect
     
  6. The Duke of Cleveland
     
  7. Collision Bend
     
  8. The Cleveland Local
     
  9. A Shoot in Cleveland
     
  10. The Best-Kept Secret
      
  11. Indian Sign
      
  12. The Dutch
      
  13. The Irish Sports Pages
      
  14. King of the Holly Hop
      

• Casey, Donis: Alafair Tucker series (1912)
  1. The Old Buzzard Had It Coming
     
  2. Hornswoggled
     
  3. The Drop Edge of Yonder
     
  4. The Sky Took Him
     
• Cooper, Susan Roberts: Milt Kovak series
  
  1. The Man in the Green Chevy
     
  2. Houston in the Rearview Mirror
     
  3. Other People's Houses
     
  4. Chasing Away the Devil
     
  5. Dead Moon on the Rise
     
  6. Doctors and Lawyers and Such
     
  7. Lying Wonders
     
  8. Vegas Nerve
     
• Preston, M.K.: Chantalene series
  
  1. Perhaps She'll Die
     
  2. Song of the Bones
     

• Greenlief, K.C.: Lak Swenson & Lacey Smith series
  
  1. Cold Hunter's Moon
     
• Houston, Victoria: Loon Lake Fishing series (aka Lew Ferris series)
  
  1. Dead Angler
     
  2. Dead Creek
     
  3. Dead Water
     
  4. Dead Frenzy
     
  5. Dead Hot Mama
     
  6. Dead Jitterbug
     
  7. Dead Boogie
     
  8. Dead Madonna
     
  9. Dead Hot Shot
     
• Logue, Mary: Claire Watkins series
  
  1. Blood Country
     
  2. Dark Coulee
     
  3. Glare Ice
     
  4. Bone Harvest
     
  5. Poison Heart
     
  6. Maiden Rock
     
  7. Point No Point
     
  8. Frozen Stiff
     
• Schwandt, Stephen: Siren Song
  
• Thayer, Steve: Pliny Pennington series
  
  1. The Wheat Field
     
  2. Wolf Pass