The last thing the Minnesota farmer sees is not the strange man burying a body in his cornfield, but the knife that delivers the fatal blows to the suspicious farmer. Called in to investigate when authorities discover a total of 16 bodies buried in the same cornfield, Lucas Davenport uncovers a plot to kill one person every summer for the past 16 years. 416pp., 750K, Auth res: Santa Fe, NM

"A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading 'with murderous attention,' must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during...

At 1:15 a.m, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he's waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, "Hey, I think he's breathing," and another voice says, "Yeah? Give me the bat." And that's the last thing he ever knows. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man's disappearance, then--very troublingly--to...