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When Sammy Jo Kendrick slips beneath the waves of Lake of the Woods, all hell breaks lose 500 miles away in Minneapolis. Sammy Jo’s not the first young woman to vanish into the vast lake, and if her disappearance isn’t solved, she won’t be the last.

The Kendrick mystery develops into Minneapolis Detective Sergeant Will Danaher’s most...

It’s 1942 and Seamus Taggert, a morose former St. Paul police detective recently pensioned out due to injuries incurred during a bank robbery, is playing at being a private detective, trying to make ends meet on a half-pension and wishing there was something he could do to help the war effort when a strange woman shows up in his crummy office...

“Don’t Shoot My Angel” is a hard-boiled detective story set in the early 1940’s in St. Paul, MN, still recovering from its reputation as the most corrupt city in the country and the preferred hideout for Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and the Karpis-Barker Gang during Prohibition. Seamus Taggert, dubbed the “Hero Cop” for his actions during a bank...

There’s bad cops and good girls and there’s good cops and bad girls. Which one is Cookie O’Shaughnessy? She’s attractive, intelligent, personable and very appealing... if you don’t know she’s an impetuous undercover cop armed with a quick temper and a gun.

When Cookie’s impetuous behavior gets her dismissed from the police force, she turns...

Cookie O’Shaughnessy has just about everything an adventurous young lady might want; a modest stock portfolio, a semi-legal Mercedes, a partnership stake in a mostly-legal hamburger joint, a wad of cash the IRS doesn’t know about and a private detective’s license. What she doesn’t have is a steady boyfriend or any clients with adrenalin-pumping,...

A man’s gotta do what he’s gotta do, if he wants to do what he wants do.

Greg Monroe writes romance novels under the nom de plume Ginny Madison. That’s what he’s “gotta do”. What he wants to do is write mysteries; hard-boiled mysteries with bite. But his publisher tells him his mysteries lack originality, his plots are simplistic and his...

Baseball. America’s game. But to some it’s more than a game, it’s life itself. “The Prospect” is the story of a college baseball pitcher about to turn pro, causes a traffic accident, injures himself, his girlfriend and an elderly couple, loses the major league baseball contract he’d just signed with the Minnesota Twins and worse, his...

When the Tribunal chose to sell Citizen Jeremiah Beltz as a slave to the primitive Wastelanders they knew they were sending the incorrigible to a certain death. No banished Citizen had ever survived the unrelenting sun, the harsh winds, the hordes of roving bandits, or the wolves the size of horses that prowled the Wasteland. Such was the price...