Galligan, John
Summary: Sheriff Heidi Kick has a dead body on her hands: a homeless young man last seen alive miles from the Bad Axe. The medical examiner confirms what Sheriff Kick has been experiencing in her own reoccurring nightmares of late: the victim was buried alive. As the relentless summer heat bears down and more bodies are discovered, Sheriff Kick also finds herself embroiled in a nasty reelection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALNania, Jeff
Summary: "Olympic medalist Anna MacDonald comes home to Namekagon County to emcee the Great Wilderness Race as predators stalk the Northwoods. While occasional interactions with potentially dangerous animals are old hat for most residents, this changes when unpredictable behavior patterns make it unclear who is the hunter and who is the hunted. Sheriff John Cabrelli and the new Musky Falls chief of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feet Wet Writing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NANHouston, Victoria
Summary: It's Lew Ferris's first day as the newly-elected Sheriff of McBride County, and already things are heating up in the Wisconsin Northwoods. The tragic drowning of a teenage girl draws an eerie parallel to the unsolved murder of another teen thirty years earlier, but one of Lew's new subordinates-- Alan Stern, Chief of the Deer Haven Police Department-- has ruled it an accidental death by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2023
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Summary: "When grouse hunters stumble upon a body in the backwoods, Sheriff John Cabrelli works to untangle the complex case, while stressed relationships, public outcries for justice, and pressure from the media compound the situation. As the body count rises in the expansive landscape, he soon finds his greatest resource is the community itself."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Creek Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NANNania, Jeff
Summary: "A missing federal agent, suitcases full of cash, a secluded cabin in the woods. Spider Lake is no longer the peaceful retreat John Cabrelli needs to recover from his gunshot wounds and start a new life. The new chief of police recruits Cabrelli to help untangle a string of strange events in the little town of Musky Falls. Cabrelli and a coloful team of local residents land in the center of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feet Wet Writing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NANBeckstrand, Jennifer
Summary: During this holiday season, Anna Yoder can't help hoping that she and her old schoolmate Felty Helmuth, who is being ostracized by their Amish community for his Korean War army service, can find a way to be the perfect match.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECDanvers, Holly
Summary: In this series debut perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Miranda James, Rain Wilmont must discover the killer, before the book closes on her life. "Rain Wilmot must dicover the killer, before the book closes on her life. Rain Wilmot has just returned to her family's waterfront log cabin in Lofty Pines, Wisconsin, after the untimely death of her husband. The cabin is peaceful compared to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DANHeld, Barbara.
Summary: After a fight with her mom, eleven-year-old Jennifer is sent back in time fiftry years. A city girl, she discovers she is now on a farm in Wisconsin. Petrified and confused, she tells her "new" parents she is not their daughter, Julie, but they do not believe her. Diagnosed with amnesia, Jennifer plays along, rather than be called crazy. After meeting Julie's best friend, Grace, the two try to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbara Held 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HELBalzo, Sandra
Summary: "Maggy Thorsen's new neighbours, Philip and Vivian Woodward, are forging ahead with their plans for The Big Steep tea shop. Philip's enthusiasm to turn the neglected cottage once owned by Vivian's reclusive grandparents, the Koepplers, into a tea lover'sparadise is infectious, but Vivian seems less excited. And when Maggy's sheepdog Frank arrives at Uncommon Grounds coffeehouse bearing a 'gift'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALPease, Amy
Summary: Eli North is not okay. His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds after a deployment to Afghanistan are as raw as ever, his marriage and career are over, and the only job he can hold down is with the local sheriff’s department. And that’s only because the sheriff is his mother—and she’s overwhelmed with small town Shaky Lake’s dwindling budget and the fallout from the opioid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books, Atria 2024
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Summary: When the wealthy McDonough family is murdered just as drilling for nickel and copper on their property is about to start, police chief Lew Ferris discovers that the family was filing a lawsuit to prevent the drilling, setting in motion a deadly chain of events. In the tiny northwoods Wisconsin town of Loon Lake there are rumors that a precious vein of nickel and copper is buried on the property...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOUFox, Lauren
Summary: "Annelise is a dreamer: imagining her future while working at her parents' popular bakery in Feldenheim, Germany, anticipating all the delicious possibilities yet to come. There are rumors that anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, but Annelise and her parents can't quite believe that it will affect them; they're hardly religious at all. But as Annelise falls in love, marries, and gives birth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "In 1865, orphaned Daisy Francois takes a housemaid position and finds that the eccentric Gothic authoress inside hides a story more harrowing than those in her novels. Centuries later, Cleo Clemmons uncovers an age-old mystery, and the dust of the old castle's curse threatens to rise again, this time leaving no one alive to tell its sordid tale"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRIHouston, Victoria
Summary: When a local pickleball player is shot in the head while practicing at an abandoned tennis court with his partner-slash-lover, Sheriff Lew Ferris suspects that the bullet was a stray shot from hunters in the area. It's not until a second player-the first victim's mistress and pickleball partner-is killed that Sheriff Ferris realizes this is no hunting accident. Someone is hunting people, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HOURazor, Peter
Summary: "A story about an Anishinaabe boy who must attend a boarding school for Indigenous children in 1890s Wisconsin. He befriends the headmaster's nephew and teaches him about his culture and Ojibwemowin language"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Makwa Enewed 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RAZZimmermann, Laura
Summary: Stuck at the lake in the middle of a Wisconsin winter, Drew and her younger sister and brother struggle to stay together after their manipulative, con artist mother dies, which they can only do if they can keep her death a secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZIMGraff, Andrew J.
Summary: As the summer of 1993 begins, Sam and Swami Brecht roll into town with a twenty-six-foot Winnebago camper van, their three young kids, and the deed to Woodchuck Rafting Company. Sam and Swami met as young, adventurous river guides but, a decade later, find themselves weighed down by money worries and the demands of adulthood. The town of Thunderwater, in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, could be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASwinarski, Claire
Summary: "Esther Larson has been cooking for funerals in the Northwoods of Wisconsin for seventy years. Known locally as the "funeral ladies," she and her cohort have worked hard to keep the mourners of Ellerie County fed-it is her firm belief that there is very little a warm casserole and a piece of cherry pie can't fix. But, after falling for an internet scam that puts her home at risk, the proud...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: What if Sean Courtland’s old Chevy truck had broken down somewhere else? What if he’d never met Denise Givens, a waitress at a local tavern in the Wisconsin town where he lands? Or Dan Young, another young man like Sean drifting through, having fled Minnesota for reasons unknown? Instead Sean and Dan pick up carpentry and plumbing work for an old man named Marion Devereaux, and Sean gets drawn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHDanvers, Holly
Summary: Rain Wilmot has made her family's Lofty Pines library her year-round home. When local man, Wallace Benson, is found dead during the annual Ice Fishing Jamboree, Rain recalls that she recently saw the victim in her library, borrowing a few cookbooks to prepare for the fishing tournament's communal "chili dump." She later finds these same books returned to the library's drop box, with an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022
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Summary: "He promised her he would never let go. She's willing to risk everything to hold on. In the aftermath of her husband's logging accident, Elsa has more questions than answers about how to carry on while caring for their two small children in the unfinishedhouse he was building for them in the woods of rural Wisconsin. To cope with the challenges of winter and the near-daily miscommunications...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNMorrissey, Hannah
Summary: Every night, while the street lamps shed the only light on Wisconsin's most crime-ridden city, police transcriber Hazel Greenlee listens as detectives divulge Black Harbor's gruesome secrets. As an aspiring writer, Hazel believes that writing a novel could be her only ticket out of this frozen hellscape. And then her neighbor confesses to hiding the body of an overdose victim in a dumpster. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORMorrissey, Hannah
Summary: "A wealthy family shrouded in scandal; a detective tasked with solving an impossible cold case; and a woman with a dark past collide in Hannah Morrissey's stunning new Black Harbor mystery, The Widowmaker. Ever since business mogul Clive Reynolds disappeared twenty years ago, the name "Reynolds" has become synonymous with "murder" and "mystery." And now, lured by a cryptic note,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORQuigley, Mindy
Summary: "Pizzeria owner Delilah O'Leary is determined to win the hefty cash prize in the town's annual culinary contest. She's got her nearly flawless recipe for Pretzel Crust Deep-Dish Bratwurst Pizza. But while Delilah and her team have been focused on pumping out perfect pizza pies, her ex-fiancé has cozied up to bar owner Jordan Watts--Delilah's contest rival. When one of Jordan's juice bar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023