As the town of Battle Lake prepares for its annual Octoberfest celebration, congressional candidates Arnold Swydecker and Sarah Glokkmann get ready for a heated debate, but the festive mood turns sour when a Glokkmann blogger is found dead.

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Minneapolitan Mira James has been taking it easy since college graduation--too easy. Due to a dead-end job and a cheating boyfriend, the Twin Cities have lost their charm, and Mira decides to begin a new life in rural Battle Lake. Right away she is offered jobs as an assistant librarian and part-time reporter, and falls into an unexpected romance with a guy who seems to be the perfect man until he turns up dead between the reference stacks her tenth...

"Salem Wiley is a genius cryptanalyst, courted by the world's top security agencies ever since making a breakthrough discovery in her field of quantum computing. She's also an agoraphobe, shackled to a narrow routine by her fear of public places. When her mother's disappearance is linked to a plot to assassinate the country's first viable female presidential candidate, Salem finds herself both target and detective in a modern-day witch hunt. Drawn...

Mira's job as a private eye in training has her tracking down the family that built the Prospect House, home of the town's new museum. Discovering a letter that dates back to 1865, Mira finds herself embroiled in a cold case of treachery and a hot case of drug trafficking that puts the whole town in danger.

Mira James' fury over getting stood up by Johnny Leeson is hotter than the scorching summer heat, and she's getting out of Battle Lake, Minnesota, "where the women are churchgoers, the men like to hunt, and the body count is above average" but before she can hightail it back to Minneapolis, a high school cheerleader is found murdered and Mira becomes hell-bent on catching the killer

Cassie McDowell's life in 1980s Minnesota seems perfectly wholesome. She lives on a farm, loves school, and has a crush on the nicest boy in class. Yes, there are her parents' strange parties and their parade of deviant guests, but she's grown accustomed to them. All that changes when someone comes hunting in Lilydale. One by one, local boys go missing. One by one, they return changed--violent, moody, and withdrawn. What happened to them becomes the...

Following her fiance to the picture perfect town of Lilydale, Minnesota, pregnant journalist Joan Harken soon realizes that something is dangerously off in this seemingly picture-perfect village where someone is watching her every move

In the summer of 1984, 14-year-old Frankie Jubilee is sent to live with her estranged mother in the small Minnesota town of Litani. The locals whisper about "The Game," her mother warns her to stay out of the woods and away from adults, and Frankie begins to wonder if she living among monsters, even in the bright light of day.

What do a plus-sized paralegal, an assistant librarian, and a struggling ski-resort owner have in common? They all have an uncanny talent for getting caught up in solving mysteries. This collection of three first-in-a-series mystery novels is full of trouble . . . in all the right ways. Too Big to Miss Sue Ann Jaffarian Book 1 of the Odelia Grey Mysteries Plus-size paralegal Odelia Grey struggles with her relationships, her crazy family, and her crazier...