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Series
Bad Axe County novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sheriff Heidi Kick struggles to prevent a radical religious sect from turning her county into the next Jonestown, all while a dark secret from her past puts her life in danger"--
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English
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Arriving at a deserted lake house to investigate an aborted call to police, Deputy Anna McCafferty walks into the middle of a heinous crime and is deprived of her weapon, car, and phone, forced to flee, along with the twenty-five-year-old daughter of the murdered couple, into the surrounding forest to escape the perpetrators who must eliminate any potential witnesses.
Author
Series
Bad Axe County novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A record heat wave suffocates remote rural Wisconsin as the local sheriff tracks down a killer hidden in the depths of the community in this atmospheric, race-to-the-finish mystery.
Sheriff Heidi Kick has a dead body on her hands: a homeless young man last seen alive miles from the Bad Axe. The medical examiner confirms what Sheriff Kick has been experiencing in her own reoccurring nightmares of late: the victim was buried alive. As the relentless...
4) Stella Maris
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Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Language
English
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"Told entirely through the transcripts of the narrator's psychiatric sessions, this intimate portrait of grief and longing follows twenty-year-old Alicia Western as she, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, contemplates the nature of madness, her hallucinations and her own existence in 1972 Black River Falls, Wisconsin"--
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Series
Bad Axe County novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
It's a time for celebration in Bad Axe County as the town gathers for the annual Syttende Mai--Norwegian Independence Day--festival. During this rollicking family-oriented event filled with dancing and food, Sheriff Heidi Kick discovers a dark and shocking event--a migrant worker has been savagely beaten but refuses to explain what happened. Then, a sudden murder of a band member shatters the festival. Something is deeply wrong in Bad Axe County....
Author
Series
Revival volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"For one day in rural central Wisconsin, the dead came back to life. Now it's up to Officer Dana Cypress to deal with the media scrutiny, religious zealots, and government quarantine that has come with them. In a town where the living have to learn to deal with those who are supposed to be dead, Dana must content with paranoia, murder, black market organ dealers, and a sister who may be losing more of her humanity with each new day."--Cover, page...
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Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
When Mattie Winston catches her husband Dr. David Winston receiving some very special loving care from R.N. Karen Owenby, she quits her job and moves out. Mattie's best friend Izzy offers her a place to stay and suggests she'd be a natural as deputy coroner. Now, instead of taking patients' pulses, Mattie's weighing their hearts and livers. But Mattie's first homicide call turns out to be for none other than Nurse Karen, and even though she saw her...
Author
Series
Bad Axe County novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen years ago, Heidi White's parents were shot to death on their Bad Axe County farm. The police declared it a murder-suicide and closed the case. But that night, Heidi found the one clue she knew could lead to the truth--if only the investigators would listen. Now Heidi White is Heidi Kick, wife of local baseball legend Harley Kick and mother of three small children. She's also the interim sheriff in Bad Axe. Half the county wants Heidi elected...
10) Frozen stiff
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Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Death is never pretty, and deputy coroner Mattie Winston's latest case is no exception. But this victim certainly was strikingly beautiful--before someone stuck that knife into her chest. Mattie knows everyone in the charmingly small town of Sorenson, Wisconsin, so the deceased is definitely a stranger from out of town. If a woman this attractive had moved into town, the news would have surely hit the gossip mill in record time. So what was the victim...
11) Board stiff
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Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Sorenson, Wisconsin's deputy coroner Mattie Winston is back on the job - in a nursing home examining the body of Bernie Chase, the now former president of the Twilight Home's board of directors, who is covered in a poweder used to turn liquids to solids. The home's residents are certain Bernie was offing the patients who cost him too much, and the patient that found him can't remember a thing. Between her ongoing tug of war with Detective Hurley,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls and her family leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and the warm bosom of her family, for a new life in Kansas Indian Territory. Packing what they can carry in their wagon, Caroline, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a...
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
Author
Series
Black Harbor novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Hannah Morrissey's Hello, Transcriber is a captivating mystery suspense debut featuring a female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case"--
17) Dead hot shot
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Series
A Loon Lake mystery volume 9
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The charming resort town of Loon Lake, Wisconsin is once again rocked by murder and retired dentist and fly fisherman Doc Osborne is deputized to help Police Chief Lew Ferris investigate the death of heiress Nolan Reece, whose body is washes ashore on Thanksgiving morning.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Years of long workdays...as a political campaigner are about to pay off now that Lucy Toomey's boss is entering the White House. But when her estranged older sister, Alice, unexpectedly dies, Lucy is drawn back to Nilson's Bay, her small, close knit Wisconsin hometown. An accident in her teens left Alice mentally impaired, and she was content to stay in Nilson's Bay. Lucy...got out and never looked back. Now,...Lucy has taken up temporary residence...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An instant classic, for fans of Huckleberry Finn, Peace Like a River, and Jim the Boy: when two hardscrabble young boys think they've committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it's too late?
20) Drowning Ruth
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Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and a young niece, Ruth. An Oprah Book Club selection and bestseller in hardcover, Drowning Ruth, now in paperback, is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart. Schwarz's first novel explores...
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