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When Mattie Winston catches her husband Dr. David Winston receiving some very special loving care from R.N. Karen Owenby, she quits her job and moves out. Mattie's best friend Izzy offers her a place to stay and suggests she'd be a natural as deputy coroner. Now, instead of taking patients' pulses, Mattie's weighing their hearts and livers.
But Mattie's first homicide call turns out to be for none other than Nurse Karen, and even though she saw her...
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Bad Axe County novels volume 1
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"Fifteen years ago, Heidi White's parents were shot to death on their Bad Axe County farm. The police declared it a murder-suicide and closed the case. But that night, Heidi found the one clue she knew could lead to the truth--if only the investigators would listen. Now Heidi White is Heidi Kick, wife of local baseball legend Harley Kick and mother of three small children. She's also the interim sheriff in Bad Axe. Half the county wants Heidi elected...
4) Bitter sweet
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In this poignant bestseller, high school sweethearts get a second chance after twenty-three years apart.
5) Dead water
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Tyrus Books
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c2001
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The third Loon Lake Fishing Mystery will bait readers. Loon Lake, Wisconsin's Police Chief Ferris hits a snag while investigating a double murder--and pursuing a killer more slippery than any muskie she's had her hands on.
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"Time travel" -- and its hazards -- are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America -- "Wainscotia, Wisconsin" -- that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of "rehabilitation" -- but cannot resist falling...
7) The drifter
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An explosive thriller debut introducing Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that the demons of war aren't easily left behind. After a year spent roaming in nature, Ash returns to civilization to help the widow of a Marine who committed suicide and finds much more than he bargained for.
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Berkley Prime Crime
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2005
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"Hope McDonald's advice column syndicates nationwide. So when Hope is murdered in her home, Chief Lewellyn Ferris can think of more than a few suspects. Now, she'll have to think of the perfect bait to net a cold-blooded killer." --Amazon.com.
11) Caddie Woodlawn
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The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
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When a floating body with its throat slashed turns out to be the newest member of the medical examiner's staff, all while she plans her wedding to Detective Steve Hurley Wisconsin deputy coroner Mattie Winston is starting to feel that she is in way over her head.
13) Dead Creek
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Tyrus Books, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc
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[2012]
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"Fishing aside, there's nothing Doc likes better than helping Chief of Police Lew Ferris a world-class fly fisherman in her own right delve into Loon Lake's criminal underworld. He's looking for any excuse to spend time with the only woman he knows who likes to fish as much as he does. So bloodthirsty killers and backwoods bandits be damned, Doc will take the quiet risk"--Page 4 of cover.
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In modern-day Gossamer Grove, Wisconsin, an inheritance forces Annalise Forsythe to face the town's dark secrets, while a century earlier amid the arrival of revivalists in Gossamer Grove, newspaperwoman Libby Sheffield works with a deacon's son to investigate his father's death.
Gossamer Grove. When a man is found dead in his run-down trailer home, Annalise Forsythe inherits the trailer, along with the pictures, vintage obituaries, and old revival...
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"A glowing wood stove, a cozy log cabin, and shelves full of books are all Rain Wilmot needs to ride out the Wisconsin winter, now that she's made her family's Lofty Pines library her year-round home. But the warm-hearted librarian's blood runs cold when a local man, Wallace Benson, is found dead during the annual Ice Fishing Jamboree. After Benson's body is found in his ice shanty, Rain recalls that she recently saw the victim in her library, borrowing...
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**For fans of Betty Hechtman and Maggie Sefton, the latest craft frenzy is Holly Quinn's Handcrafted series debut. Sammy Kane just moved back to her hometown to run a craft store. But when the owner of a nearby yarn shop is murdered, Sammy will needle little help finding the killer.** When a heartbroken Samantha "Sammy" Kane returns to her hometown of Heartsford, WI, for her best friend Kate's funeral, she learns that Kate's much-loved craft store...
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"After Aggie Dunkirk's career is unceremoniously ended by her own mistakes, she finds herself traveling to Wisconsin, where her grandmother, Mumsie, lives alone in her rambling old home. She didn't plan for how eccentric Mumsie has become, obsessing over an old, unsolved crime scene--even going so far as to re-create it in the attic. Mystery seems to follow her when she finds work as a secretary helping to restore the flooded historical part of the...
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"An instant classic, for fans of Huckleberry Finn, Peace Like a River, and Jim the Boy: when two hardscrabble young boys think they've committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it's too late?"--
20) Dead deceiver
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Tyrus Books, an imprint of F+W Media
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2014.
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A string of crimes in Loon Lake, including a shooting on a ski trail and the stalking of a former nun, occurs during an international ice fishing festival, and Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris must investigate.
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