New Minnesota mystery and suspense

Updated September 10, 2025
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The quiet librarian
Eskens, Allen
Paper Book
After the murder of her best friend, a librarian's search for answers leads back to her own dark secrets in this "searing and timely" novel about a woman transformed by war, family, vengeance, and love, from the author of the beloved bestseller The Life We Bury (Kristin Harmel, author...
The Murder Show
Goldman, Matt
Paper Book
THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! The Murder Show is a pulse-racing novel about secrets, old friends, and how the past never leaves us by New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award winning author Matt Goldman! Showrunner Ethan Harris had...
Them bones
Housewright, David
Paper Book
A stolen dinosaur skull is at the center of a complex mystery laid at the feet of unofficial P.I. Rushmore McKenzie. There are two things that Rushmore McKenzie hates to turn down--a request from a friend and a challenge. Both of them show up in his wife's nightclub in the...
Apostle's Cove : a novel
Krueger, William Kent
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor Mystery series--a "master class in suspense and atmospheric storytelling" (The Real Book Spy)--continues with Cork O'Connor revisiting a case from his past and confronting mysterious deaths in the present. A few nights...
The Big Sugar
Logue, Mary
Paper Book
A grisly death near her new homestead draws Brigid Reardon into a complicated mystery soon after her arrival in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1881   After the harrowing events that entangled her in Deadwood, Brigid Reardon just wants to move west and get on with her new...
The Laughing Dead
Lourey, Jess
Paper Book
Two murder investigations, decades apart, threaten to expose a cold case agent's darkest secrets in a pulse-pounding thriller by the Edgar Award-nominated author of The Taken Ones. The bodies of three teenage girls are found in central Minnesota--each with her mouth fixed in...
The whisper place : a thriller
Mejia, Mindy
Paper Book
"There are few authors who can twist the ordinary into such frightening and compelling scenarios, and Mindy Mejia tops that list." --William Kent Krueger The latest thriller in the USA Today bestselling Iowa Mysteries series starring Max Summerlin and Jonah Kendrick, an...
A long time gone
Moehling, Joshua
Paper Book
"A big thriller with an even bigger heart!" - Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author "Equal parts compelling mystery and riveting family drama...I'd follow its hero, Deputy Ben Packard, anywhere." - Jess Lourey, Edgar-nominated author of The Taken Ones<...
Broken fields
Rendon, Marcie R.
Paper Book
Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman and occasional sleuth,is back on the case after a man is found dead on a rural Minnesota farm in the next installment of the acclaimedNative crime series. Minnesota, 1970s- It's spring in the Red River Valley and Cash Blackbear is doing...
Lethal prey
Sandford, John
Paper Book
Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces to track down a ruthless killer who will do whatever it takes to keep the past buried, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was...
Passing through a prairie country : a novel
Staples, Dennis E.
Paper Book
A darkly humorous thriller about the ghosts that haunt the temples of excess we call casinos, and the people caught in their high-stakes, low-odds web For decades, a dark force has terrorized the Languille Lake reservation. Spoken of only in whispers as "the sandman," he lurks in...
The Deepest Cut
Tracy, P. J.
Paper Book
The Monkeewrench team is back in a brand-new nail-biting thriller from New York Times bestselling author P. J. Tracy. Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth arrest a sadistic pair of killers for the murder of several women with the help of...

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