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1) Penance
Author
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Holland Taylor mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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"Holland Taylor is comfortable in interrogation rooms. For years the cold dark cells of the St. Paul Police Department homicide squad were his turf, and with the help of his partner he wrung confessions out of countless killers. But that was long ago. Tonight Taylor is on the other side of the desk. Tonight he is the suspect"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
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Holland Taylor mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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The swindling of an elderly widow leads to “a greased-lightning tale of scam and counterscam” from an Edgar Award–winning author (Kirkus Reviews).
When a drunk driver kills her entire family, Florida retiree Irene Gustafson is left rich and alone. Between savings and life insurance, the death of her son and his family leaves her with nearly $300,000—a veritable fortune in a community where most...
When a drunk driver kills her entire family, Florida retiree Irene Gustafson is left rich and alone. Between savings and life insurance, the death of her son and his family leaves her with nearly $300,000—a veritable fortune in a community where most...
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English
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"Cecilia Ross is looking for a change. She has decided to take time off from her job as a successful motivational speaker and sell her home. She moves in to a beautiful old house in St. Paul, Minnesota, complete with a big front porch, a wild garden, a chef's kitchen--and three roommates. The four women are different ages, but all are feeling restless, and want to take a roadtrip to find again the people and things they miss. One woman wants to connect...
4) Tin city
Author
Series
Rushmore McKenzie mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
5) Night prey
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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A serial killer is watching Sara Jensen from a building across the street and spending time in her bed when she is not home. To catch him, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport has to provoke him and Sara is asked to be the decoy. By the author of Winter Prey.
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English
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It's shaping up to be a beautiful Christmas season, until someone from Foxy's past winds up dead. Fearing she's being stalked by her friend's killer, Foxy flees to a resort in northern Minnesota. But trouble follows her. Setting aside their holiday plans, Robin, Cate and the rest of the No Ordinary Women book club mobilize to come to her aid, but a blizzard may keep them from getting there in time. An almost forgotten memory from Foxy's checkered...
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Series
Paul Madriani novels volume 9
Language
English
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A hate crime involving the murder of a legal scholar who had made his career by penning controversial works places defense attorney Paul Madriani in a media spotlight that compromises his investigation into an elusive witness within the cloistered confines of the Supreme Court.
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Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
This book is based on more than 100,000 pages of FBI files and wiretaps, prison and police records, and mob confessions. Interviews with 250 crime victims, policemen, gun molls, and family members of criminals bring these public enemies to life. Crime historian Paul Maccabee takes you inside the bank robberies, gangland assassinations, and police intrigue of St. Paul's 1920s and 1930s gangster era. You'll also find Crooks' Tour maps and more than...
9) Fitz
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Fitz kidnaps the father he has never known, taking him from his St. Paul apartment building at gunpoint, in an attempt to address his bewildering mix of resentment and yearning.
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Publisher
North Star Press of St. Cloud
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"The story revolves around a murder that takes place in the home of a prestigious actor on Saint Paul's historic Grand Avenue. Bumbling detective Doyle Malloy, specialist in celebrity cases, is forced to solve the crime or lose his job. Being as he's a fairly untalented detective, he hires his own detective -- an authentic British Holmes-style detective -- to help find the killer. By sifting through the evidence and a slew of quirky characters, the...
12) Cold blood
Author
Series
Paris Murphy mysteries volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
13) Deadly reunion
Author
Publisher
North Star Press of St. Cloud
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
George Barclay would be the first to tell you that he is an unlikely hero, that he has never done anything remotely courageous in his entire life. A talented, respected television journalist, yes, but in most other ways an ordinary man, something of a social misfit at that: overweight, single, shy, ill-at-ease almost everywhere except in his newsroom. So how does he become the center of an intriguing mystery surrounding the rape and murder of a high...
Author
Series
Paul Madriani novels volume 14
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Defending a client accused of mercy-killing her father, attorney Paul Madriani is drawn into a treacherous conspiracy involving the victim's former unit from World War II and a feared Nazi relic.
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Series
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English
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From the outside, Carter Tomlin's life looks perfect: a big house, pretty wife, two kids. But Tomlin has a secret. He's lost his job, the bills are mounting, and that perfect life is hanging by a thread. Desperate, he robs a bank. Then he robs another. FBI special agent Carla Windermere and Minnesota state investigator Kirk Stevens reunite to solve the case.
Author
Publisher
Borealis Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"F. Scott Fitzgerald stands as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. His biographers all note the importance of his boyhood in St. Paul, where he gained his sensitivity about wealth and position - later made evident in such classics as The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. This collection brings together the best of Fitzgerald's St. Paul stories, some virtually unknown, others classics of short fiction."--BOOK JACKET....
Author
Publisher
North Star Press of St. Cloud
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Police investigators Pete Culnane and Martin Tierney are as different as parchment and newsprint, and Martin's insecurities are fed by Pete's expertise and finesse. A homeless man wearing an eye-popping diamond ring is as inexplicable to both of them as the disappearance of the two boys who reported his body on St. Paul's Upper Landing. Blinded by the Sight demonstrates how good intentions can go awry, resulting in unintended, life-altering predicaments"--P....
19) Judgment prey
Author
Series
Prey series volume 33
Thorndike Press large print top shelf
Lucas Davenport novel volume 33
Prey novel volume 33
Thorndike Press large print top shelf
Lucas Davenport novel volume 33
Prey novel volume 33
Language
English
Description
"Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were shot in cold blood. A wealthy federal judge, there's no short list of people who could have a vendetta against Sands, but the gruesome murders, especially that of his children, turn their St. Paul community on its head. Sand was on the verge of a major donation to a local housing charity, Heart/Twin Cities, and with the money in limbo, eyes suddenly...
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