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...
Mysterious tales of Old St. Paul : three cases featuring Shadwell Rafferty
Millett, Larry
Paper Book
Tales of murder and revenge: the early exploits of detective Shadwell Rafferty   Shadwell Rafferty's last case may have led to his murder, but naturally--and fortunately, for followers of the indefatigable St. Paul detective--there's more to the story. Mysterious Tales of...
A long time gone
Moehling, Joshua
Broken fields
Rendon, Marcie R.
Paper Book
1970s Minnesota. It's spring in the Red River Valley and Cash Blackbear is doing summer field work for Bud Borgerud, a local farmer-until she finds him dead on the kitchen floor of the property's rented farmhouse. The only possible witness to the murder is the young daughter of a Native field...
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
For decades, a dark force has terrorized the Languille Lake reservation. Only spoken of in whispers as 'the sandman,' he lurks in the Hidden Atlantis Lake Resort and Casino, the reservation's main attraction and source of revenue, leeching its patrons' dreams and ambitions and also preventing the...
The Deepest Cut
Tracy, P. J.
Paper Book
Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth arrest a sadistic pair of killers for the murder of several women with the help of Monkeewrench, their eccentric, cyber-sleuth friends and partners. One of the killers dies in custody and the other, Wolfgang Mauer, is sent to a maximum...

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