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Interview: Tami Hoag

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Tami Hoag is the best-selling American author of a number of mystery/thriller series. Her recent novel The Bitter Season is the sixth featuring Minneapolis police detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska. It’s a book with great energy, moving through the two parallel stories – a member of the…
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The Bitter Season

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Written by Tami Hoag — The Bitter Season is Hoag’s latest crime thriller featuring the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based team of police detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska. This time, the pair is split up, because Liska has opted to join a new cold case unit, hoping…
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Ordinary Grace

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It’s the summer of 1961 in the small town of New Bremen, Minnesota. William Kent Kreuger’s story concerns the Drum family, but more particularly the brothers Frank and Jake. Their idyllic summer is blighted by the discovery of first one, and then another, body. These…
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The Cold Nowhere

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Written by Brian Freeman — In a rickety frame house, at the end of a track, hidden deep in the Minnesota woods, a six-year-old cowers under the porch. Above her, behind her, all around her, she can hear the screams of a woman being butchered….
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Ordinary Grace

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Written by William Kent Krueger — William Kent Krueger is already well known for his Cork O’Conner mystery series, but he has given us something a little bit different in Ordinary Grace. It’s the summer of 1961 in the small town of New Bremen, Minnesota, where…
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Off the Grid/Two Evils

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Written by PJ Tracy — Back in 2003, the mother-daughter writing team PJ Tracy appeared with Monkeewrench, published as Want to Play? in the UK. This innovative crime thriller introduced the world to Grace MacBride and the computer programming team at the software developer Monkeewrench….
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Primal

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Written by DA Serra — What would you be capable of, if the lives of those dearest to you were at stake?  This is what Alison Kraft is about to find out in Primal, by screenwriter turned novelist Deborah Serra. Ben Burne is a lifer…
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