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...
Photograph
Freeman, Brian
From New York Times bestselling author Brian Freeman, Photograph is an emotional cold case mystery of hidden identities and startling twists--perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Mary Kubica, and Freida McFadden. Shannon Wells is a private investigator who helps women with nowhere else to go....
Them bones
Housewright, David
Paper Book
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 person of Angela Bjork, who has come to request McKenzie's help. McKenzie, once a homicide detective, now through a series of unlikely events,...
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...
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...

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