MN Mystery Writers
We’re working on an interactive database of Twin Cities Sisters in Crime author members and their works. In the meantime, here’s a list of Minnesota mystery authors, with links to their websites where possible. Help us keep this list up-to-date! Please send additions, updates, or changes to tcsistersincrime@gmail.com.
William Kent Krueger - www.williamkentkrueger.com
RD Zimmerman/Robert Alexander - www.thekitchenboy.com and www.rasputinsdaughter.com
Ellen Hart - www.ellenhart.com
Mary Logue - www.marylogue.com
Monica Ferris - www.monica-ferris.com
Carl Brookins - www.carlbrookins.com
Lori L. Lake - www.lorillake.com
KJ Erickson - www.kjerickson.org
MD Lake - www.mysterynet.com/lake
Pat Dennis - www.penurypress.com
Judith Guest - www.judithguest.com
Deborah Woodworth - www.deborahwoodworth.com
Pete Hautman - www.petehautman.com
Michael Dahl - www.mysteryworks.com
Vince Flynn - www.vinceflynn.com
Grant Blackwood - www.grantblackwood.org
Laura Childs - www.laurachilds.com
Erin Hart - www.erinhart.com
Brian Lutterman - www.brianlutterman.com
John Sandford - www.johnsandford.org
Tami Hoag - www.tamihoag.com
Theresa Monsour - www.berkleyjoveauthors.com/author146
Lois Greiman - www.loisgreiman.com
Quinton Skinner - www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=28631
Anne Frasier - www.annefrasier.com
Peter Rennebohm - www.prennebohm.com
Philip S. Donlay - www.philipdonlay.com
E. Kelly Keady - www.ekellykeady.com
David Housewright - www.davidhousewright.com
Chuck Logan - www.chucklogan.org
MaryJanice Davidson - www.maryjanicedavidson.net
Anthony Neil Smith - www.anthonyneilsmith.typepad.com
Brian Freeman - www.bfreemanbooks.com
P.J. Tracy - www.pjtracy.net
Dean Hovey - www.jpresspublishing.com/pages/hooker.html
C.C. Canby - www.jpresspublishing.com/pages/masks.html
Margaret Frazer - www.margaretfrazer.com
William Fietzer - www.williamfietzer.com
Jess Lourey - www.jesslourey.com
Kathleen Hills - www.kathleenhills.com
Barbara (Babs) Lakey - www.suspenseunlimited.net
Marilyn Victor - www.snakejones.com
Michael Allan Mallory - www.snakejones.com
Sujata Massey - www.interbridge.com/sujata/index.html
C. Hyytinen - www.chyytinen.com
Steve Thayer - www.stevethayer.com
Michael Hachey - www.avalonbooks.com/index.php/catblogmw/190-michael-hachey
Terri Persons - www.newmysteryreader.com/terri_persons.htm
Rick Shefchik - www.rickshefchik.com
Judith Koll Healey - www.thecanterburypapers.com/canterauthor.html
Mark Combes - www.markcombes.com
Linda Morganstein - www.lindamorganstein.com
Christopher Valen - www.christophervalen.com
Michael Stanley - www.detectivekubu.com
Jenifer LeClair - www.windjammermysteries.com
Julie Kramer - www.juliekramerbooks.com
Barbara Fister - www.barbarafister.com
Gerald Anderson - www.midnightinkbooks.com/author.php?author_id=3494
Susan Runholt - www.susanrunholt.com
Jeff Foster - www.jeff-foster.us
Bart Schneider - www.hatsoffblog.com/?author=3
Jan Dunlap - www.jandunlap.com
Richard Thompson - www.fiddlegame.com
Lin Enger - www.lin-enger.com
Judith Yates Borger - www.judithyatesborger
Brian Landon - www.brianlandon.com
Andrea Sisco - www.andreasisco.com
David Oppegaard - www.davidoppegaard.com
Beth Solheim - www.bsolheim.com
J.P. White - www.jpwhite.net
Roger Stelljes - www.rogerstelljes.com
Jessie Chandler - www.jessiechandler.com
Wendy Webb – www.wendykwebb.com
Stacy Verdick Case - www.stacyverdickcase.com
Susan Koefod - www.susankoefod.com
Barb Schlichting – www.barbschlichting.com
Danelle Helget – http://www.danellehelget.com/
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Harold Adams Carl Wilcox Series Murder-1981 Paint the Town Red-1982 The Missing Moon-1983 The Naked Liar-1985 The Fourth Widow-1986 The Barbed Wire Noose-1987 The Man Who Met the Train-1988 The Man Who Missed the Party-1989 The Man Who Was Taller Than God-1992 A Perfectly Proper Murder-1993 A Way With Widows-1994 The Ditched Blonde-1995 Hatchet Job-1996 The Ice Pick Artist-1997 No Badge, No Gun-1998 Lead, So I Can Follow-1999 The Thief Who Stole Heaven-1982 When Rich Men Die-1987 Fourth of July Wake-2003
Robert Alexander/R.D. Zimmerman Blood Trance -1994 Closet -1998 Hostage -1998 Tribe -1998 Outburst - 1999 Innuendo -2000 The Kitchen Boy - 2003 Rasputin’s Daughter - 2006
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John L Betcher The Missing Element: A James Becker Mystery - 2010
Grant Blackwood The End of Enemies- 2002 The Wall of Night -2002 Echo of War 2002
Roger Blakely Schubert’s Daughter: A North Shore Novel
Carl Brookins Inner Passages - 2000 A Superior Mystery -2002 Old Silver 2005 The Case of the Greedy Lawyers 2005 Devils Island, 2009 Reunion, 2010 The Case of the Great Train Robbery, 2011 The Case of the Missing Case, 2011 Red Sky, 2011
James C. Burau To Support and Defend
Gary Bush Once Upon A Crime Anthology (short story author, editor)
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C.C. Canby Masks of Murder (2003)
Marlene Chabot China Connection ~ 2002 North Dakota Neighbor ~ 2007
Laura Childs SCRAPBOOKING MYSTERY SERIES Keepsake Crimes 2003 Photo Finished 2004 Bound For Murder 2004 TEA SHOP MYSTERY SERIES Death by Darjeeling 2001 Gunpowder Green 2002 Shades of Earl Grey 2003 English Breakfast Murder 2003 The Jasmine Moon Murder 2004
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Barbara DaCosta Resort to Murder anthology
Michael Dahl Finnegan Zwake mysteries The Horizontal Man The Ruby Raven The Worm Tunnel The Viking Claw The Coral Coffin
Cass Dalglish Nin (2000)
MaryJanice Davidson By Any Other Name (1998) Adventures of the Teen Furies (1998) Dying for Ice Cream (1999) (ebook) Secrets 6 (2000) (Love’s Prisoner) Reunions (Too Good To Be True) (2000) (under the name Janice Pohl) Escape The Slush Pile (non-fiction self-help) ebook 2001 Thief of Hearts (2001) Naughty or Nice (2001) (Santa Claws, a Wyndham Werewolf Story) Chicken Soup for the Teacher’s Soul (What I Learned in Spite of Myself) Undead & Unwed (2002) Canis Royal: Bridefight (2002)(e-book) Love Lies (2002) (e-book) Secrets 8 (2002) (Jared’s Wolf) Lighthearted Lust (2003) (There’s No Such Thing as a Werewolf) (e-book) Under Cover (2003) Beggarman, Thief (2004)(e-book) Cravings (2004) (Dead Girls Don’t Dance) Forgotten Wishes (2004) (Love’s Tender Fury)(e-book) Perfect for the Beach (2004) (My Thief) How to Be a Wicked Woman (2004) (The Wicked Witch of the West Side) Merry Christmas, Baby (2004) (Undercover Claus) Men at Work (2004) (The Fixer-Upper) Undead & Unemployed (2004) The Royal Treatment (2004) Bad Boys with Expensive Toys (2004) (The World is Too Darned Big) Bewitched, Bothered, and BeVampyred (2005) (Night Mares) Derik’s Bane (2005) Hello, Gorgeous! (2005) The Royal Pain (2005) Undead & Unappreciated (2005) Undead & Unreturnable (2005) Betsy the Vampire Queen (2005) (first 4 Betsy books combined) Jennifer Scales and the Ancient Furnace (2005) Romance at the Edge: In Other Worlds (2005) Charming the Snake (2005) (Savage Scavenge) Kick Ass (2005) Bite (2005) (Biting in Plain Sight) Really Unusual Bad Boys (2005) Wicked Women Whodunit (2005) Sleeping with the Fishes (2006) Jennifer Scales and the Messenger of Light (2006) Undead & Unpopular (2006) Drop Dead Gorgeous (2006) Mysteria (2006) (Alone Wolf) Fangs Again (2006) never got published Surf’s Up (2006) (Paradise Bossed) Valentine’s Day is Killing Me (2006) (Cuffs and Coffee Breaks) Dead & Loving It (2006) Swimming Without a Net (2007) The Silver Moon Elm (2007) The Royal Mess (2007) Undead & Uneasy (2007) Doing It Right (2007) Demon’s Delight (2007) (Witch Way) No Rest for the Witches (2007) (Majicka) Over the Moon (2007) (Driftwood) Mysteria Lane (2007) (Disdaining Trouble) Fish Out of Water (2008) Undead & Unworthy (2008) Dead Over Heels (2008) (Undead & Wed: A Honeymoon Story Betsy: Bride of the Vampire (Undead 5-7; Dead & Loving It) (2008) Seraph of Sorrow (2009) Undead & Unwelcome (2009) Faeries Gone Wild (2009) (Tall, Dark and Not So Faery) Undead & Unfinished – (2010) Rise of the Poison Moon – (2010) Me, Myself, and Why – (2010) Undead and Undermined (July 2011) Mysteria Nights (both Mysteria anthologies in one omnibus) (2011) Evangelina (August 2011) Yours, Mine and Ours (September 2011) Undead and Unstable (2012)
Pat Dennis Stand Up and Die Hotdish to Die For Who Died in Here? Silence of the Loons - 2005
Barb Dimich Superior’s Jewel - 2004 Madeline’s Jewel - 2004 Jewel of the Apostles - 2006
Phil Donlay Category Five – 2004
Marjorie Dorner Nightmare – 1987 Freeze Frame- 1990 Blood Kin- 1992 Family Closets- 1998 Seasons of Sun and Rain- 1999 Winter Roads, Summer Fields – 2000
Joan Drury The Other Side of Silence Silent Words
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L.L. Enger Sacrifice -1993 Sinners League: A Gun Pedersen Mystery -1994
K.J. Erickson Third Person Singular -2001 The Dead Survivors -2002 The Last Witness -2003 Alone at Night -2004
Chris Everheart “Chilli Dog” s.s. in Twin Cities Noir
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Barbara Fister On Edge - 2002 In the Wind - 2008
Vince Flynn Term Limits -1997 Transfer of Power -1999 Third Option -2000 Separation of Power -2001 Executive Power -2002 Memorial Day –2004 Consent to Kill - 2005
Anne Frasier Play Dead Sleep Tight Hush Before Wake - 2005
Margaret Frazer – Gail Frazer and Mary Monica Pulver writing together The Novice’s Tale -1992 The Servant’s Tale -1993 The Outlaw’s Tale -1994 The Bishop’s Tale -1994 The Boy’s Tale -1995 The Murderer’s Tale -1996
Margaret Frazer – Gail Frazer The Prioress’ Tale -1997 The Maiden’s Tale -1998 The Reeve’s Tale -1999 The Squire’s Tale -2000 The Cler’s Tale -2002 The Bastard’s Tale -2003 The Hunter’s Tale -2004 A Play of Isaac -2004
Mary Monica Pulver aka Monica Ferris SCS Peter Brichter series Knight Fall (Murder at the War ) - 1987 The Unforging Minutes - 1988 Ashes to Ashes - 1988 Original Sin -1991 Show Stopper- 1992 As Margaret Frazer - Gail Frazer and Mary Monica Pulver writing together The Novice’s Tale -1992 The Servant’s Tale -1993 The Outlaw’s Tale -1994 The Bishop’s Tale -1994 The Boy’s Tale -1995 The Murderer’s Tale -1996 Needlework series Crewel World -1999 Framed in Lace -1999 A Stitch In Time -2000 Unraveled Sleeve -2001 A Murderous Yarn -2002 Hanging By a Thread -2003 Cutwork -2004 Crewel Yule – 2004 Embroidered Truths - 2005
Susan Funk Bone Flour -2002
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Richard Greelis Cop Book - 2009
Kate Green Fortunato/Jardino series Shattered Moon -1986 Black Dream -1993 Angel Falls -1997 Night Angel -1989 Shooting Star -1992 Masks -1995 Sold in Dark Places -1996 Summer of Men -1996
Lois Greiman Unzipped! - 2005
Elizabeth Gunn Five Card Stud Six-Pound Walleye Seventh-Inning Stretch-2003
Bob Gust
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Ron Handberg Savage Justice -1992 Cry Vengeance -1993 Malice Intended -1997 Dead Silence -1999
Ellen Hart Jane Lawless Series Hallowed Murder -1989 Vital Lies -1991 Stage Fright -1992 A Killing Cure -1993 A Small Sacrifice -1994 Faint Praise -1995 Robber’s Wine -1996 Wicked Games -1998 Hunting the Witch -1999 The Merchant of Venus -2001 Immaculate Midnight –2002 An Intimate Ghost - 2004 Iron Girl - 2005 Sophie Greenway series This Little Piggy Went to Murder -1994 For Every Evil -1995 The Oldest Sin -1996 Murder in the Air -1997 Slice and Sice -2000 Dial m for Meat Loaf -2001 Death on a Silver Platter –2003 No Reservations Required - 2005
Erin Hart Cormac Maguire/Nora Gavin Series Haunted Ground - 2003 Lake of Sorrows - 2004 False Mermaid - 2010
Pete Hautman Drawing Dead – 1993 Short Money – 1995 The Mortal Nuts – 1996 Mr. Was – 1996 (young adult) Ring Game – 1997 No Limit – 1998 (young adult) Bad Beat Mrs. Million – 1999 Rag Man –2001 Hole in the Sky – 2001 (young adult) Doohickey – 2002 Sweetbleed – 2003 (young adult) Godless – 2005 (young adult) Invisible – 2005 (young adult)
Joel (Joe) Helgerson The Case of the Floating Pearl Buyer – 2002 The Case of the Breathless Martian - 2003
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Sharon Darby Hendry Nowhere to Hide Soliah: The Sara Jane Olson Story Glensheen’s Daughter
Rebecca Hill Killing Time in St. Cloud (co-authored with Judith Guest)
Kathleen Hills Past Imperfect – 2002 Hunter’s Dance - 2004
Judith Koll Healey The Canturbury Papers
Tami Hoag Still Waters – 1992 Cry Wolf – 1993 Dark Paradise - 1994 Night Sins -1995 Guilty As Sin -1996 A Thin Dark Line -1997 Ashes to Ashes -1999 Dust to Dust –2000 Dark Horse – 2004 Kill the Messenger - 2004
David Housewright Tin City - Penance - 1995 Practice to Deceive – 1998 A Hard Ticket Home - 2004 Dearly Departed -
Dean Hovey Hooker Where Evil Hides - 2000 Unforgettable - 2010
C. Hyytinen Pattern of Violence - 2003 Pattern of Vengeance - 2007
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Glenn Ickler One Death Too Many
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Nancy Baker Jacobs Desperate Journeys Flash Point Star Struck The Turquoise Tattoo A Slash of Scarlet Ricochet See Mommy Run Double or Nothing
Marilyn Jax The Find - 2007 Road to Omalos - (June) 2010
E. Richard Johnson Silver Street – 1968 The Inside Man – 1969
Christopher Bonn Jones Wake Up Dead
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E. Kelly Keady The Cross of St. Maro - 2004
Susan Koefod Washed Up - 2011
William Kent Krueger Cork O’Conner books Iron Lake - 1998 Boundry Waters 1999 Purgatory Ridge -2001 Blood Hollow - 2004 Mercy Falls - 2005 The Devil’s Bed - 2003
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Carole LaFavor Along the Journey River – 1997 Evil Dead Center – 1998
Lori L. Lake Ricochet in Time – 2001 Gun Shy – 2001 Under the Gun – 2002 Different Dress – 2003 Have Gun We’ll Travel – 2005
M.D. Lake (Allen Simpson) Amends for Murder -1989 Cold Comfort -1990 Poisoned Ivy -1992 A Gift for Murder Murder by Mail Reissue -1993 Once Upon a Crime -1995 Grave Choices -1995 Flirting with Death -1996 Midsummer malice -1997 Death Calls the Tune -1999
Barbara Lakey Spirits of the Once Walking -2002 Spirit of the Silent Butler -2002 Spirit of the Straightedge -2002
Jim Larranaga The Dead Farmer’s Almanac
Jennifer LeClair Rigged for Murder - 2008
Chuck Logan After the Rain Vapor Trail Hunter’s Moon The Price of Blood The Big Law Absolute Zero Homefront
Mary Logue Red Lake of the Heart Still Explosion Claire Watkins series Blood Country – 1999 Dark Coulee – 2000 Glare Ice – 2001 Bone Harvest – 2004 Widow’s Weeds -2005
Jess Lourey May Day - 2006 June Bug - 2007 Knee High by the Fourth of July - 2007 August Moon-2008 September Fair-2009 October Fest-2011 November Hunt-2012
Brian Lutterman Poised to Kill Bound to Die
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Marilyn Victor & Michael Allan Mallory Death Roll - 2007 Killer Instinct - 2010
Kevin McColly The Walls of Pedro Garua – 1993 Pecking Order – 1994 Sun Dance – 1996 Switch – 1997 Praying to a Laughing God – 1998 The Other Side – 2000
Kerri Miller Dead Air – 2002
Larry Millett Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon – 1996 Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders – 1998 Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery – 1999 Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance – 2001 The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes – 2002
Theresa Monsour Clean Cut- 2003 Cold Blood- 2004
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Peter Rennebohm Blue Spirngs French Creek - 2004
Bob Rueff
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John Sandford, aka John Camp Prey series Rules of Prey – 1989 Shadow Prey –1990 Eyes of Prey -1991 Silent Prey –1992 Winter Prey -1993 Night Prey -1994 Mind Prey -1995 Sudden Prey –1996 Secret Prey - 1998 Certain Prey – 1999 Easy Prey -2000 Chosen Prey -2001 Mortal Prey -2002 Hidden Prey -2004 Broken Prey –2005
Kidd novels The Fool’s Run – 1989 The Empress File – 1991 The Devil’s Code – 2000 The Hanged Man’s Song - 2003
Ernest Schanilec Blue Darkness The Towers Danger in the Keys Purgatory Curve Gray Riders Sleep Six Night Out in Fargo Gray Riders II Ice lord
Stephen Schwandt The Last Goodie – 1985 A Risky Game – 1986 Holding Steady – 1988 Guilt Trip – 1990 Funny Bone – 1992 Siren’s Song – 2004
August Schwerdfeger From Bricks to Dust
Quinton Skinner Amnesia Nights 14 Degrees Below Zero
Ida Swearingen Owl of the Desert – 2003
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L.A. Taylor Footnote to Murder – 1983 Only Half a Hoax – 1983 Shed Light on Death – 1985 Poetic Justice – 1988 A Murder Waiting to Happen – 1989 A Point of Tangency The Fathergod Experiment
Steve Thayer Saint Mudd – 1994 The Weatherman – 1995 Silent Snow – 1999 Moon Over Lake Elmo – 2001 The Wheat Field – 2002 Wolf Pass – 2003
Natalie Buske Thomas Gene Play – 1998 Victual Memories – 1999 Camp Conviction – 2000
P.J. Tracy Monkeewrench – 2003 Live Bait – 2004 Dead Run – 2005
Walter Trenerry Murder in Minnesota: A Collection of True Stories – 1962
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Christopher Valen The Black Minute - 2009 White Tombs - 2008 Bad Weeds Never Die - 2011
Marilyn Victor & Michael Allan Mallory Death Roll - 2007 Killer Instinct - 2010
Stacy Verdick Case A Grand Murder - 2011
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Michael Wayne Harvest of Souls - 2009
Wendy Webb The Tale of Halcyon Crane - 2010
Nancy Wikarski The Fall of White City -2002
Jen Wright Killer Storm - 2007 Big Noise - 2009
Deborah Woodworth Death of a Winter Shaker -1997 A Deadly Shaker -1998 Sins of a Shaker -1999 A Simple Shaker Murder -2000 Killing Gifts: A Shaker Mystery –2001 Dancing Dead: A Shaker Mystery -2002
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Rebecca Zimmerman Beyond The Darkness - 2009