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Regional Mysteries: U.S. Midwest
Mysteries set in the Midwest United States
General Midwest
Illinois
Indiana (Notre Dame)
Iowa
Kansas
Michigan (Detroit)
Minnesota
Missouri
North Dakota
Ohio (Cincinnati, Cleveland)
Oklahoma
Wisconsin
Authors & Titles
General Midwest
- Sidor, Steven: Booth City series
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- Skin River
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- Bone Factory
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Illinois
- Black, Michael A.: Ron Shade series
- A Killing Frost
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- Windy City Knights
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- A Final Judgment
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- Dead Ringer (with Julie Hyzy)
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(NOTE: Dead Ringer also features Hyzy's Alex St. James, whose series is listed under Cozy Mysteries)
- Carter, Charlotte: Cook County series
- Jackson Park
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- Chicago Noir (edited by Neal Pollack)
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- Clark, Jack: Westerfield's Chain
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- Cruse, Lonnie: Metropolis series
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- Murder in Metropolis
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- Murder Beyond Metropolis
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- Married in Metropolis
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- Malice in Metropolis
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- Garland, Ardella: see Joe, Yolanda (below)
- Hellmann, Libby Rischer: Ellie Foreman series
- An Eye for Murder
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- A Picture of Guilt
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- An Image of Death
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- A Shot to Die For
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- Hellmann, Libby Rischer: Georgia Davis series
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- Easy Innocence
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- Doubleback
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- Holton, Hugh: Larry Cole series
- Presumed Dead
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- Chicago Blues
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- Windy City
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- Violent Crimes
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- Red Lightning
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- Left Hand of God
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- Time of the Assassins
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- The Devil's Shadow
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- Criminal Element
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- Revenge
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- Joe, Yolanda (writing as Ardella Garland): Georgia Barnett series
- Details at Ten
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- Hit Time
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- Video Cowboys
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- Zubro, Mark Richard: Tom and Scott series
- A Simple Suburban Murder
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- Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead?
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- The Only Good Priest
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- The Principal Cause of Death
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- An Echo of Death
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- Rust on the Razor
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- Are You Nuts?
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- One Dead Drag Queen
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- Here Comes the Corpse
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- File Under Dead
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- Everyone's Dead But Us
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- Schooled in Murder
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Indiana
- Dams, Jeanne M.: Hilda Johansson series (1900)
- Death in Lacquer Red
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- The Red, White and Blue Murder
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- Green Grow the Victims
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- Silence is Golden
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- Crimson Snow
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- Indigo Christmas
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University of Notre Dame
- McInerny, Ralph: Notre Dame series (aka Knight Brothers series)
- On This Rockne
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- Lack of the Irish
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- Irish Tenure
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- The Book of Kills
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- Emerald Aisle
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- Celt and Pepper
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- Irish Coffee
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- Green Thumb
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- Irish Gilt
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- The Letter Killeth
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- Irish Alibi
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- The Green Revolution
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- Sham Rock
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Iowa
- Collins, Max Alan: Mallory series
- No Cure for Death
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- The Baby Blue Rip-Off
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- Kill Your Darlings
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- A Shroad for Aquarius
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- Nice Weekend for a Murder
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- Harstad, Donald: Carl Houseman series
- Eleven Days
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- Known Dead
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- The Big Thaw
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- Code Sixty-One
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- A Long December
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Kansas
- Hayes, J.M.: Mad Dog & Englishman series
- Mad Dog and Englishman
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- Prairie Gothic
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- Plains Crazy
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- Broken Heartland
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- Server Down
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- English Lessons
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- Weir, Charlene: Susan Wren series
- The Winter Widow
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- Consider the Crows
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- Family Practice
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- Murder Take Two
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- A Cold Christmas
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- Up in Smoke
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- Edge of Midnight
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Michigan
- Hamilton, Steve: Alex McKnight series
- A Cold Day in Paradise
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- Winter of the Wolf Moon
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- The Hunting Wind
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- North of Nowhere
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- Blood is the Sky
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- Ice Run
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- Heywood, Joseph: Grady Service series (aka Woods Cop series)
- Ice Hunter
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- Blue Wolf in Green Fire
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- Chasing a Blond Moon
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- Running Dark
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- Strike Dog
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- Hills, Kathleen: John McIntire series
- Past Imperfect
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- Hunter's Dance
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- Witch Cradle
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- The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies
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- Holtzer, Susan: University of Michigan series (aka Anneke Haagen series)
- Something to Kill For
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- Curly Smoke
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- Bleeding Maize and Blue
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- Black Diamond
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- The Silly Season
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- The Wedding Game
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- Kisor, Henry: Stephen Martinez series
- Season's Revenge
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- A Venture Into Murder
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- Cache of Corpses
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Detroit
- Detroit Noir (edited by E.J. Olsen & John C. Hocking)
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- Estleman, Loren D.: Detroit series
- Whiskey River
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- Motown
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- King of the Corner
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- Edsel
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- Stress
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- Jitterbug
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- Thunder City
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- Estleman, loren D.: Peter Macklin series
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- Kill Zone
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- Roses Are Dead
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- Any Man's Death
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- Something Borrowed, Something Black
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- Little Black Dress
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Minnesota
- Gunn, Elizabeth: Jake Hines series
- Triple Play
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- Par Four
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- Five Card Stud
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- Six-Pound Walleye
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- Seventh-Inning Stretch
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- Crazy Eights
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- McCaffety's Nine
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- The Ten-Mile Trials
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- Housewright, David: Rushmore "Mac" McKenzie series
- A Hard Ticket Home
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- Tin City
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- Pretty Girl Gone
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- Dead Boyfriends
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- Madman on a Drum
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- Jelly's Gold
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- Johnson, Wayne: Paul Two Persons series
- Don't Think Twice
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- Six Crooked Highways
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- Krueger, William Kent: Cork O'Connor series
- Iron Lake
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- Boundary Waters
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- Purgatory Ridge
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- Blood Hollow
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- Mercy Falls
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- Copper River
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- Thunder Bay
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- Red Knife
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- Minnesota Crime Wave series:
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- Silence of the Loons: Thirteen Tales of Mystery by Minnesota's Premier Crime Writers
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- Resort to Murder: Thirteen More Tales of Mystery by Minnesota's Premier Crime Writers
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Missouri
- Marcy, Jean: Meg Darcy series
- Cemetery Murders
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- Dead and Blonde
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- Mommy Dearest
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North Dakota
- Rosenberg, Joel: Ernest "Sparky" Hemingway series
- Home Front
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- Family Matters
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Ohio
- Gaus, P.L.: Ohio Amish series
- Blood of the Prodigal
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- Broken English
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- Clouds Without Rain
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- Cast A Blue Shadow
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- A Prayer for the Night
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- Separate From the World
![new 12/08](new1208.gif)
- Harmless as Doves
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- Harper, Karen: Amish Home Valley series
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- Fall From Pride
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- Short, Sharon: Josie Toadfern series
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- Death of a Domestic Diva
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- Death By Deep Dish Pie
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- Death in the Cards
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- Hung Out to Die
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- Murder Unfolds
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Cincinnati
- John, Cathie: Kate Cavanaugh series
- Add One Dead Critic
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- Beat a Rotten Egg to the Punch
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- Carve a Witness to Shreds
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Cleveland
- Roberts, Les: Milan Jacovich series
- Pepper Pike
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- Full Cleveland
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- Deep Shaker
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- The Cleveland Connection
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- The Lake Effect
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- The Duke of Cleveland
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- Collision Bend
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- The Cleveland Local
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- A Shoot in Cleveland
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- The Best-Kept Secret
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- Indian Sign
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- The Dutch
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- The Irish Sports Pages
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- King of the Holly Hop
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Oklahoma
- Casey, Donis: Alafair Tucker series (1912)
- The Old Buzzard Had It Coming
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- Hornswoggled
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- The Drop Edge of Yonder
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- The Sky Took Him
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- Cooper, Susan Roberts: Milt Kovak series
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- The Man in the Green Chevy
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- Houston in the Rearview Mirror
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- Other People's Houses
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- Chasing Away the Devil
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- Dead Moon on the Rise
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- Doctors and Lawyers and Such
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- Lying Wonders
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- Vegas Nerve
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- Preston, M.K.: Chantalene series
- Perhaps She'll Die
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- Song of the Bones
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Wisconsin
- Greenlief, K.C.: Lak Swenson & Lacey Smith series
- Cold Hunter's Moon
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- Houston, Victoria: Loon Lake Fishing series (aka Lew Ferris series)
- Dead Angler
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- Dead Creek
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- Dead Water
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- Dead Frenzy
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- Dead Hot Mama
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- Dead Jitterbug
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- Dead Boogie
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- Dead Madonna
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- Dead Hot Shot
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- Logue, Mary: Claire Watkins series
- Blood Country
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- Dark Coulee
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- Glare Ice
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- Bone Harvest
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- Poison Heart
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- Maiden Rock
![new 10/07](new1007.gif)
- Point No Point
![new 12/08](new1208.gif)
- Frozen Stiff
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- Schwandt, Stephen: Siren Song
![new 9/04](new904.gif)
- Thayer, Steve: Pliny Pennington series
- The Wheat Field
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- Wolf Pass
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updated: Tuesday, July 19, 2011
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