10,000 Experiences - Minnesota Mystery

Looking for help finishing your 10,000 Experiences summer reading challenges? Check out these recommended mysteries that, either take place in Minnesota, are written by a Minnesotan or both!

Updated May 30, 2024
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Mercy Falls
Krueger, William Kent
Paper Book
In this follow-up to Blood Hollow, Tamarack County Sheriff Corcoran O'Connor investigates the high-profile murder of a powerful Chicago businessman. When he's then targeted by a sniper, O'Connor must move through a maze of murder, adultery, and deceit.
The Ursulina
Freeman, Brian
Paper Book
In this gripping prequel to his Edgar Award finalist and New York Times bestseller The Deep, Deep Snow, Brian Freeman takes us on Rebecca's dark journey to reveal the truth about the Ursulina ... a journey that ultimately leads to an excruciating choice that will change her life forever. ...
The land of dreams
Sundstøl, Vidar
Paper Book
Winner of the Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime novel and named by Dagbladet as one of the top twenty-five Norwegian crime novels of all time, The Land of Dreams is the chilling first installment in Vidar Sundstøl's critically acclaimed Minnesota Trilogy, set on the...
Invisible prey
Sandford, John
Paper Book
In the richest neighborhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, killed with a pipe, the rooms tossed, only small items stolen. It is clearly the random work of someone looking for money to buy drugs. But as Davenport looks more closely, he begins to wonder whether the items...
Saving Emma
Eskens, Allen
Paper Book
A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his own home in this propulsive and perfectly-plotted thriller from "one of our best crime writers at the top of his game" (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author). ...
Haunted ground
Hart, Erin
Paper Book
A dazzling debut -- already an international publishing sensation -- combining forensics, history, archaeology, and suspense. Introducing Erin Hart, who brings the beauty, poignancy, mystery, and romance of the Irish countryside to her richly nuanced first novel. When farmers cutting turf in a...
Dead boyfriends
Housewright, David
Paper Book
Right up until they put him in jail, McKenzie thought the cops were kidding. After all, he did them a favour by stopping a rookie cop from roughing up a distraught woman at a murder scene. Next thing he knows, he's reliving nightmares he thought he had left far behind him, and he's vowing payback.
Daughters of the lake
Webb, Wendy
Paper Book
The ghosts of the past come calling in a spellbinding heart-stopper from the "Queen of the Northern Gothic." After the end of her marriage, Kate Granger has retreated to her parents' home on Lake Superior to pull herself together--only to discover the body of a murdered woman washed...

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