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This first in a series launch introduces Claire Watkins, a deputy sheriff for the Pepin County Police Department. Claire, a former Minneapolis police detective, and her 10-year-old daughter Meg fled the Twin Cities after her husband, Steve, also a cop, was killed.
When Landers Anderson—an elderly neighbor who befriended Claire and Meg—dies of a heart attack after being sideswiped with a shovel, Claire determines to find the culprit.
...2) Wolf Hollow
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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In the tiny northwoods Wisconsin town of Loon Lake there are rumors that a precious vein of nickel and copper is buried on the property of wealthy Grace McDonough. The drilling is about to begin, but not if environmentalist Pete Ferris can help it. When Grace's son, Noah, is caught in a sordid sex crime, police chief Lew Ferris, makes the arrest. A day later, Lew is stricken when her brother Pete turns up dead, a bloody pry bar found in the woods...
4) Dead frenzy
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Tyrus Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A string of crimes in Loon Lake, including a shooting on a ski trail and the stalking of a former nun, occurs during an international ice fishing festival, and Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris must investigate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bleak House Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
187 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retired dentist Doc Osborne must team up with Chief of Police Lew Ferris to solve a cold case murder and a hot string of burglaries, all while trying to stop a child predator from striking again.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Murder, She Wrote meets Fargo in the Northwoods of Wisconsin in the nineteenth "gripping, atmospheric, and smart" (T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times bestselling author) installment of the Loon Lake series"--
10) Blue moon
Author
Series
Nightcreature novel volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the wolf population of Miniwa, Wisconsin begins to stalk human prey, officer Jessie McQuade enlists professor Will Cadotte, a native American activist, to help in her investigation. Something very strange is going on and as Jessie follows the trail to the shocking truth, she'll have to decide who she can trust when the moon is full.
11) Dead boogie
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Doc Osborne and police chief Lew Ferris hook up again to solve the murder of one of Loon Lake's citizens. When they start digging into the background of the victim they find some startling connections to one of the wealthiest families in Chicago. Osborne and Ferris wonder if the secret they have uncovered will destory the family.
12) Dead Creek
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Series
Publisher
Tyrus Books, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fishing aside, there's nothing Doc likes better than helping Chief of Police Lew Ferris a world-class fly fisherman in her own right delve into Loon Lake's criminal underworld. He's looking for any excuse to spend time with the only woman he knows who likes to fish as much as he does. So bloodthirsty killers and backwoods bandits be damned, Doc will take the quiet risk"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"People are happy, kids full of ice cream and teenagers setting off firecrackers so loud no one hears the gunshot. But when the crowd thins out an attractive young wife makes a grisly discovery: A single bullet to the brain has killed her much-older husband -- the richest man in Wisconsin. Just as Loon Lake Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris gets the murder investigation underway, her good friend and deputy coroner, "Doc" Osborne, is alarmed to hear his...
14) Dead firefly
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Gallery books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Murder She Wrote meets Fargo in the nineteenth installment of the "engaging" (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine), critically acclaimed Loon Lake mystery series. "My wife and the CEO of my company just tried to run over me." Doc Osborne is startled by the unexpected words tumbling out of the mouth of a fellow AA member, a recently remarried lead accountant for an under-construction luxury fly fishing lodge preserve. Doc tries to alert Chief Lew...
15) Dead loudmouth
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyrus Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's a bright summer morning in Loon Lake when Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris is called to the scene of a horrific accident that occurred in the dead of night at a local gentlemen's club. The club is owned by one of the victims, a member of the private Deer Creek Fishing and Hunting Preserve and the scion of a wealthy Wisconsin family. When the county coroner is unavailable due to a car accident, Chief Ferris deputizes her close friend and fellow fly-fisherman,...
16) Dead angler
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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