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  • SUGAR COOKIE MURDER. by Fluke, Joanne.
    Fluke, Joanne.
    SUGAR COOKIE MURDER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Kensington, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Hannah Swenson mystery with recipes. Set at Christmas time in rural Minnesota where the author grew up. SIGNED on the title page. Includes over 50 original recipes with an index to the recipes. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-75820681x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new)

    Book ID: 91198
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  • IN THE DEEP MIDWINTER. by Clark, Robert.
    Clark, Robert.
    IN THE DEEP MIDWINTER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Picador, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (third book), set in Minnesota where a man loses his brother in what seems to be a hunting accident. Clark's next novel - Mr White's Confession - went on to win the Edgar award, 278 pp. ISBN: 0-312-151497.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 89971
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  • THE WHISTLING SHADOW. by Seeley, Mabel (1903-1991)
    Seeley, Mabel (1903-1991)
    THE WHISTLING SHADOW.

    Edition: First printing.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954. dj. Hardcover first edition - The award-winning author's seventh and last suspense novel. Gail Kiskadden, a wealthy widow, depressed and lost after the death of her twenty year old son, John, he had been secretly married. She drives to Georgia to find the girl, who is pregnant, and brings her back to Minneapolis, only to discover that Sherry Lee's sordid past has followed her and her home, formerly her haven, has become a place of horror and danger. "Mystery writer Diana Killian notes that Seeley's protagonists were noteworthy as strong, independent women decades before modern feminism." 219 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in light blue cloth boards in a fair only dust jacket. with significant edgewear, rubbing and creasing. Original price of 2.75 on flap.

    Book ID: 88540
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  • AND THERE HE KEPT HER. by Moehling, Joshua.
    Moehling, Joshua.
    AND THERE HE KEPT HER.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    Naperville, IL: Poisoned Pen Press, (2023). SIGNED - The author's first thriller, introducing Ben Packard, former Minneapolis police officer, now a detective and acting sheriff in the small Minnesota town of Sandy Lake. "When two teenagers break into a house on a remote lake in search of prescription drugs, what starts as a simple burglary turns into a nightmare for all involved. Emmett Burr has secrets he's been keeping in his basement for more than two decades, and he'll do anything to keep his past from being revealed. As he gets the upper hand on his tormentors, the lines blur between victim, abuser, and protector." INSCRIBED and dated on the title page. Includes an excerpt from the next book…

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    Naperville, IL: Poisoned Pen Press, (2023). SIGNED - The author's first thriller, introducing Ben Packard, former Minneapolis police officer, now a detective and acting sheriff in the small Minnesota town of Sandy Lake. "When two teenagers break into a house on a remote lake in search of prescription drugs, what starts as a simple burglary turns into a nightmare for all involved. Emmett Burr has secrets he's been keeping in his basement for more than two decades, and he'll do anything to keep his past from being revealed. As he gets the upper hand on his tormentors, the lines blur between victim, abuser, and protector." INSCRIBED and dated on the title page. Includes an excerpt from the next book in the series, a group reading guide and an interview with the author. 331 pp. ISBN: 978-1728275772.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 88012
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  • AND THERE HE KEPT HER. by Moehling, Joshua.
    Moehling, Joshua.
    AND THERE HE KEPT HER.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    Naperville, IL: Poisoned Pen Press, (2023). SIGNED - The author's first thriller, introducing Ben Packard, former Minneapolis police officer, now a detective and acting sheriff in the small Minnesota town of Sandy Lake. "When two teenagers break into a house on a remote lake in search of prescription drugs, what starts as a simple burglary turns into a nightmare for all involved. Emmett Burr has secrets he's been keeping in his basement for more than two decades, and he'll do anything to keep his past from being revealed. As he gets the upper hand on his tormentors, the lines blur between victim, abuser, and protector." SIGNED on the title page. Includes an excerpt from the next book in the…

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    Naperville, IL: Poisoned Pen Press, (2023). SIGNED - The author's first thriller, introducing Ben Packard, former Minneapolis police officer, now a detective and acting sheriff in the small Minnesota town of Sandy Lake. "When two teenagers break into a house on a remote lake in search of prescription drugs, what starts as a simple burglary turns into a nightmare for all involved. Emmett Burr has secrets he's been keeping in his basement for more than two decades, and he'll do anything to keep his past from being revealed. As he gets the upper hand on his tormentors, the lines blur between victim, abuser, and protector." SIGNED on the title page. Includes an excerpt from the next book in the series, a group reading guide and an interview with the author. 331 pp. ISBN: 978-1728275772.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 88011
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  • VERMILION DRIFT. by Krueger, William Kent.
    Krueger, William Kent.
    VERMILION DRIFT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel in the award-winning series featuring private investigator Cork O'Connor, set in Minnesota. Deep in an underground iron mine, Cork stumbles across the remains of six murder victims - five are half a century old, but one is recent. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-1439153840.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 87384
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  • HOLY GHOST. by Sandford, John [pseudonym of John Camp.]
    Sandford, John [pseudonym of John Camp.]
    HOLY GHOST.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Virgil Flowers suspense novel, set in a small Minnesota town of only 600, where the mayor and his teenage buddy come up with the idea of having the Virgin Mary appear at the Catholic Church, to put the town on the map - but then the shootings begin. 373 pp. ISBN: 978-0735217324.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (common light toning to pages)

    Book ID: 87049
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  • DEEP FREEZE. by Sandford, John [pseudonym of John Camp.]
    Sandford, John [pseudonym of John Camp.]
    DEEP FREEZE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - The tenth Virgil Flowers suspense novel, set in the town of Tripton, Minnesota, where the body of a woman found frozen in a block of ice might be connected to an upcoming 25th high school reunion, 381 pp. ISBN: 978-0-399176067.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (common light toning to pages)

    Book ID: 86868
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  • KILLING TIME IN ST. CLOUD. by Guest, Judith and Rebecca Hill.
    Guest, Judith and Rebecca Hill.
    KILLING TIME IN ST. CLOUD.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Delacorte, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collaboration between these two successful and well-established authors - Publishers Weekly comments that it "mingles a suspenseful plot with homely domestic details and a perfectly calibrated sense of atmosphere and place - a small Minnesota town in the grip of bone-chilling winter. . . When charming psychopath Nick Uhler returns to his hometown of St. Cloud after a 12-year absence, he precipitates a series of deaths and initiates an irrevocable process in which old, unsavory secrets are revealed." 300 pp. ISBN: 0-440500699.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 85041
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  • THREE NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH. by Laidlaw, Brett.
    Laidlaw, Brett.
    THREE NIGHTS IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, set during three days of a recordbreaking Minnesota cold spell culminating in a ferocious blizzard, this tells of the disintegration of a family. The father, Ulysses Turner Fraser or U.T., is disillusioned professor of English who has failed to win fame as a poet, and also feels he has failed as a teacher and father and he "fatalistically finds himself drawn to the high bridge over the Mississippi, where he ends his life. Ironically, he will never know how much he was loved, appreciated and admired; how influential his life has been. Laidlaw's prose grows in power as he delineates the nuances of…

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    New York: Norton, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, set during three days of a recordbreaking Minnesota cold spell culminating in a ferocious blizzard, this tells of the disintegration of a family. The father, Ulysses Turner Fraser or U.T., is disillusioned professor of English who has failed to win fame as a poet, and also feels he has failed as a teacher and father and he "fatalistically finds himself drawn to the high bridge over the Mississippi, where he ends his life. Ironically, he will never know how much he was loved, appreciated and admired; how influential his life has been. Laidlaw's prose grows in power as he delineates the nuances of human relationships revealed in the mundane details of family life. Readers may find themselves surprised by the emotional impact this cerebral novel delivers." (Publishers Weekly) Dust jacket praise from Annie Dillard (who called it "extraordinary. . sometimes the prose takes a turn so fast it raises the hair on the back of your neck"), Paul Horgan, Stephen Becker and more. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-393025101.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 84513
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  • THIRD PERSON SINGULAR. by Erickson, K. J.
    Erickson, K. J.
    THIRD PERSON SINGULAR.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing Minneapolis Special Detective Marshall "Mars" Bahr. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from William Kent Krueger who called this "a riveting crime novel that combines the textbook details of a modern homicide investigation with a novelist's precise and compassionate eye for the complexities of the human animal."
    Recommended. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-312266669.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 84182
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  • HISTORY OF WOLVES. by Fridlund, Emily.
    Fridlund, Emily.
    HISTORY OF WOLVES.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Grove Press, (2017). First edition - The author's very highly praised first novel (winner of the McGinnis-Ritchie Award for its first chapter) set in northern Minnesota where Linda lives with her parents in the last remnants of an abandoned commune, both isolated at home and an outsider at school. When the young Gardner family moves in across the lake, Linda finds herself welcomed as a baby-sitter for their little boy, Paul - but along with this new sense of belonging come expectations and secrets she doesnt understand. 279 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 83858
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  • BLOODY GENIUS. by Sandford, John [pseudonym of John Camp.]
    Sandford, John [pseudonym of John Camp.]
    BLOODY GENIUS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - The twelth Virgil Flowers suspense novel, set on the local college campus where a feud between two departments turns deadly. 372 pp. ISBN: 978-0-525536611.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (common light toning to pages)

    Book ID: 82289
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  • THE CURRENT. by Johnston, Tim.
    Johnston, Tim.
    THE CURRENT.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2019. SIGNED first edition - The second suspense novel by this award winning writer. Two college roommates drivel to Minnesota to be with the father of one, the former sheriff, who is now dying from cancer. When they are almost there, a chance stop at a gas station leads to violence and to the car being pushed into the river. The sheriff's daughter survives - but the death of the other girl brings up a still unsolved murder from 10 years earlier. SIGNED on the title page. 406 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 81141
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  • THE CURRENT. by Johnston, Tim.
    Johnston, Tim.
    THE CURRENT.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2019. SIGNED first edition - The second suspense novel by this award winning writer. Two college roommates drivel to Minnesota to be with the father of one, the former sheriff, who is now dying from cancer. When they are almost there, a chance stop at a gas station leads to violence and to the car being pushed into the river. The sheriff's daughter survives - but the death of the other girl brings up a still unsolved murder from 10 years earlier. SIGNED on the title page and dated 10-5-18 - that is, before publication. 406 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 81128
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  • IN THE DEEP MIDWINTER. by Clark, Robert.
    Clark, Robert.
    IN THE DEEP MIDWINTER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Picador, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (third book), set in Minnesota where a man loses his brother in what seems to be a hunting accident. Clark's next novel - Mr White's Confession - went on to win the Edgar award, but this is equally rewarding and worth reading. SIGNED on the title page. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-312-151497.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 75394
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  • MR. WHITE'S CONFESSION. by Clark, Robert.
    Clark, Robert.
    MR. WHITE'S CONFESSION.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Picador, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a complex story of murder set in Minnesota in 1939, winner of the Edgar award for best novel of 1998. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-312-192177.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 75110
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  • HEAVEN'S KEEP. by Krueger, William Kent.
    Krueger, William Kent.
    HEAVEN'S KEEP.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The ninth novel in the award-winning series featuring private investigator Cork O'Connor. When a charter plane carrying Cork's wife, Jo, goes down over the Wyoming Rockies, he leaves Minnesota to search for the truth behind the crash. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 978-1416556763.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (price-clipped).

    Book ID: 74989
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  • IRON LAKE. by Krueger, William Kent.
    Krueger, William Kent.
    IRON LAKE.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2009). SIGNED - First novel in the series featuring private investigator Cork O'Connor, set in northern Minnesota's lake country. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Anthony and Barry Awards for best first novel, and of the Minnesota Book Award. 330 pp. plus a brief preview of "Vermillion Drift.". ISBN: 978-1439157282.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 74987
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  • WINTER PREY. by Sandford, John [pseudonym of John Camp.]
    Sandford, John [pseudonym of John Camp.]
    WINTER PREY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fifth Lucas Davenport novel, set in Minnesota. SIGNED on the title page. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-399-138153.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 73883
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  • GONE TO DUST. by Goldman, Matt.
    Goldman, Matt.
    GONE TO DUST.

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2017) dj. Hardcover - The first novel by this Emmy-award winning screenwriter. Set in Minneapolis, it introduces private investigator Nils Shapiro. . Well-deserved cover praise from Lee Child, Harlen Coben, Philip Margolin and more. 300 pp. ISBN: 978-0765391285.

    Condition: Fine in a fine clear printed acrylic dust jacket (a new copy)

    Book ID: 73676
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  • RED EARTH, WHITE EARTH. by Weaver, Will.
    Weaver, Will.
    RED EARTH, WHITE EARTH.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Years after Guy Phersson left Minnesota and became a sucessful entrepreneur in California's Silicon Valley, he gets a letter from his grandfather saying "come now. Trouble." A coming of age story set in Minnesota's farm country in the 1950s, a look at who owns the land, and Indian rights, and a book about learning to be able to become fully human. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-671619772.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark)

    Book ID: 72898
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  • HEAVEN'S KEEP. by Krueger, William Kent.
    Krueger, William Kent.
    HEAVEN'S KEEP.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The ninth novel in the award-winning series featuring private investigator Cork O'Connor. When a charter plane carrying Cork's wife, Jo, goes down over the Wyoming Rockies, he leaves Minnesota to search for the truth behind the crash. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 978-1416556763.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 72247
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  • GONE TO DUST. by Goldman, Matt.
    Goldman, Matt.
    GONE TO DUST.

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The first novel by this Emmy-award winning screenwriter. Set in Minneapolis, it introduces private investigator Nils Shapiro. SIGNED on the title page. Well-deserved cover praise from Lee Child, Harlen Coben, Philip Margolin and more. 300 pp. ISBN: 978-0765391285.

    Condition: Fine in a fine clear printed acrylic dust jacket (a new copy)

    Book ID: 72148
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  • THE TALL PINE POLKA. by Landvik, Lorna.
    Landvik, Lorna.
    THE TALL PINE POLKA.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Ballantine, (1999). First edition - The author's third book, a "lyrical, funny and idiosyncratic tale" set in a small northwoods town in Minnesota. 440 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new)

    Book ID: 70739
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  • A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FLOOD: Stories. by Harfenist, Jean.
    Harfenist, Jean.
    A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FLOOD: Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, 11 interconnected stories that follow the coming to age of a young woman living in rural small town Minnesota in the 1960s - at the same time as her family is disintegrating, from poverty, drugs and alcohol, and their house is literally sinking, Dustjacket praise from Kay Gibbons, Richard Russo (who described it as " like finding a hot slot machine in a casino. One winner after another") and Mark Childress, 212 pp. ISBN: 0-375-413936.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 67501
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  • TAMARACK COUNTY. by Krueger, William Kent.
    Krueger, William Kent.
    TAMARACK COUNTY.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A novel in the award-winning series featuring private investigator Cork O'Connor, set in Minnesota. SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 978-1451645774.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 65994
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  • RED KNIFE. by Krueger, William Kent.
    Krueger, William Kent.
    RED KNIFE.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2009). SIGNED - A novel in the award-winning series featuring private investigator Cork O'Connor, set in Minnesota. SIGNED on the title page. 310 pp. plus an excerpt from 'Heaven's Keep.'. ISBN: 9781416556756.

    Condition: Good condition overall - ink marks on first page of reviews-

    Book ID: 65987
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  • TAMARACK COUNTY. by Krueger, William Kent.
    Krueger, William Kent.
    TAMARACK COUNTY.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2014). SIGNED - A novel in the award-winning series featuring private investigator Cork O'Connor, set in Minnesota. SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 978-1451645774.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 65978
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  • MERCY FALLS. by Krueger, William Kent.
    Krueger, William Kent.
    MERCY FALLS.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Atria / Simon & Schuster, (2009). SIGNED - A novel in the award-winning series featuring private investigator Cork O'Connor, set in Minnesota. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp. plus an excerpt from 'Heaven's Keep.'. ISBN: 978-1439157800.

    Condition: Very good (reading crease on spine)

    Book ID: 65977
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