Murder Under the Loon

Murder Under the Loon
Author: Gerald Anderson
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-10-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0738720259

In the good old Minnesota town of Fergus Falls, murder is about as common as shorts-wearing tourists in January. But even in quiet Nordic towns, strange things can happen in the dead of winter. Eager to retire, insurance company owner "Pinky" Hofstead had grand plans to announce the appointment of his new president at an all-employee winter weekend retreat. But after a night of snowmobiling in sub-zero weather, Hofstead is found the next day—as cold and stiff as a piece of dried lutefisk. Puzzled by how Hofstead's body could be lying beneath a concrete loon with his snowmobile abandoned fifty feet away, Otter County Sheriff Palmer Knutson and his upstart rookie detective suspect that this is more than just an accident. With possible motives of greed, ambition, and jealousy, could any of the four employees or their spouses be cold-blooded enough to ice the boss? Uffda! There's a murderous chill in the air!

Murder Under the Loon

Murder Under the Loon
Author: Gerald Anderson
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0738710954

A sheriff and deputy investigate the murder of a well-liked president of an insurance company, who just invited his staff and their spouses to a vacation at the Otter Slide Resort in Minnesota to announce his successor.

Murder With Puffins

Murder With Puffins
Author: Donna Andrews
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2006-02-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146680792X

Winner of the Agatha Award and the St. Martin's Malice Domestic Award for her first work Murder With Peacocks, Donna Andrews brings back her zany characters and disasterous events. In an attempt to get away from her family, Meg and her boyfriend go to a tiny island off the coast of Maine. What could have been a romantic getaway slowly turns into disaster. Once there, they are marooned by a hurricane ahd that is only the beginning of their problems. Meg and her boyfriend arrive at the house only to discover that Meg's parents and siblings, along with their spouses are all there. When a murder takes place, Meg realizes that she and her boyfriend can no longer sit by a cozy fireplace, but must instead tramp around the muddy island to keep try and clear her father who is the chief suspect.

Dead Hot Shot

Dead Hot Shot
Author: Victoria Houston
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2011-07-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440531595

Murder never takes a holiday...or so Loon Lake learns one wintry Thanksgiving Day. Chief of Police Lew Ferris, short-handed thanks to an AWOL coroner, never even gets the turkey stuffed before the bodies start to surface. By the end of the day, credit card theft and dysfunctional families have so muddied the waters that not even expert tracker and dedicated fishing guide Ray Pradt can hope to fish the final day of muskie season. And while retired dentist Doc Osborne had counted on sitting by the fire with Lew (out of uniform) and planning a fly-fishing trip to Wyoming, the unexpected arrival of Gina Palmer, former investigative reporter turned forensics database expert, ramps up the action with her pursuit of a Canadian link to the theft of merchandise from stores across the upper Midwest. Dead Hot Shot, ninth in the Loon Lake Mystery series, is a heady mix of murder, mayhem, and fishing in the northwoods of Wisconsin.

Dead Insider

Dead Insider
Author: Victoria Houston
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2013-06-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440533563

In the midst of a catastrophic August rainstorm, a grisly discovery shatters the serenity of a summer evening in northern Wisconsin. Moving quickly to prevent a panic among tourists, Loon Lake Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris enlists the forensic and interrogation skills of her close friend and fellow fly fisherman, the retired dentist "Doc" Osborne. Within hours of launching their investigation, they find themselves faced with a national media circus as Loon Lake becomes the focus of a murderous scenario that links the murder to the race for the U.S. Senate by a woman who is heir to a Northwoods fortune and other, less savory, family traditions. In the meantime, Doc Osborne's eldest daughter, Mallory, enters into a relationship that may put her life at risk--unless her father and Chief Ferris can find the killer stalking the residents of Loon Lake.

The Loon Lake Murders

The Loon Lake Murders
Author: Robert Sutherland
Publisher: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Scholastic-TAB Publications
Total Pages: 121
Release: 1987
Genre: Algonquin Provincial Park (Ont.)
ISBN: 9780590717496

The Silence of the Loons

The Silence of the Loons
Author: Mary Logue
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781932472363

Thirteen tales of mystery by Minnesota's premier crime writers.

Dead Lil' Hustler

Dead Lil' Hustler
Author: Victoria Houston
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-05-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440568421

It's mid-July in Loon Lake, and Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris has her hands full with the discovery of the skeletal remains of a missing bank executive and the murder of graduate student. To complicate matters, both victims were discovered on a hidden river deep in the national forest--a place that just so happens to be a dangerous wolf rendezvous site. Lew recruits her close friend and fellow flyfisherman, retired dentist "Doc" Osborne, for his forensic and interrogation skills. But Doc has his own set of problems to worry about: his grandson is hospitalized with a grave illness, and now Lew seems to be getting too interested in the father of the murdered student--a well-to-do widower who is teaching her the Japanese art of tenkara flyfishing.

SHOOTING AT LOONS

SHOOTING AT LOONS
Author: Margaret Maron
Publisher: Deborah Knott Mysteries (Paper
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2017-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780997457544

Asked to sit in for a hospitalized judge in gracious old Beaufort, Deborah hopes to spend a restful week at her cousin's nearby Harkers Island cottage; but her very first clamming expedition turns up the corpse of a well-known fisherman. When a second murder occurs, Deborah realize she's dangerously close to a killer...

Murder in Bemidji... Or... Paul's Bloody Trousers

Murder in Bemidji... Or... Paul's Bloody Trousers
Author: Gerald Anderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-09
Genre: Bemidji (Minn.)
ISBN: 9780878395651

" Let us call them, for now, "Murderer" and "Victim." Victim stood in the shadows behind the giant blue ox. It was eerily silent. The only sounds came from a few ripples gently lapping onto the shore of Lake Bemidji and, in the distance, exhaust fumes drifted through the air from a passing tanker on Highway 2. The fury of the thunderstorm system that had ripped across northern Minnesota five hours earlier left hundreds of small puddles on the tarred surface of the parking lot, which now reflected the light from a distant street lamp. In the east, flashes of lightning illuminated a sky indifferent to the violence that would soon occur in this vacation paradise."--Cover.