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Fresh Meat: The Old Deep and Dark by Ellen Hart

By Debbie Meldrum

October 6, 2014

The Old Deep and Dark by Ellen Hart is the 22nd mystery featuring P.I. Jane Lawless as she investigates a string of murders at an old theater (available October 7, 2014). I have a friend who hates seeing a Cast of Characters at the beginning of a novel. She feels it means either A) there…

Strongwood: A Crime Dossier by Larry Millett, a historical mystery in documentary format, featuring Shad Rafferty and Sherlock Holmes

Strongwood: A Crime Dossier by Larry Millett: New Excerpt

By Larry Millett

March 14, 2014

This is an exclusive, specially-formatted excerpt from Strongwood: a Crime Dossier by Larry Millett, a novel in documentary form about the 1904 murder trial of Adelaide Strongwood, investigated by St. Paul’s sleuth and saloonkeeper Shadwell Rafferty with associate Sherlock Holmes (available March 15, 2014). The place is Minneapolis, the year is 1903, and Michael Masterson…

Dealivering Death, a Riley Spartz mystery by Julie Kramer

Fresh Meat: Delivering Death by Julie Kramer

By Kerry Hammond

January 7, 2014

Delivering Death by Julie Kramer is the 6th mystery featuring Minneapolis investigative reporter Riley Spartz (available January 7, 2014). One of my favorite things about reading a new-to-me author is meeting new characters. It’s rare and, to use a cliché, magical, when a character draws me in immediately. When I started reading Delivering Death, I…

Mark Harmon as Lucas Davenport in USA’s Certain Prey

Watch the Promo for Certain Prey: Harmon in Action as Davenport

By Clare Toohey

October 23, 2011

Here’s USA’s description of the movie Certain Prey, based upon John Sandford’s novel, to air two weeks from now: Lucas Davenport doesn’t need his job as Minneapolis’s Deputy Chief of Police; he could have retired long ago with the money he made designing computer simulations. But Davenport loves what he does just as much as…

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