minneapolis (minn.)

Special detective Marshall Bahr is stumped when a wealthy popular teenage girl is found murdered near the outskirts of town, but a lucky break leads him in the direction of a deadly killer.

Back in 1985, two girls disappeared, and fledgling cop Lucas Davenport couldn't get over it, even when his boss declared the case closed. Now a house has been torn down, the bodies of two girls wrapped in plastic have been found, and Davenport is back on the case.

Witnessing a robbery gone wrong that has caused the death of a pharmacy employee, Lucas Davenport's surgeon wife, Weather Karkinnen, is targeted by the thieves when they become fearful that she can identify them.

Danger stalks Lucas Davenport at work and all too close to home when petty thief and paraplegic Randy Whitcomb targets Lucas's pretty fourteen-year-old adopted daughter and a young man with the .50 caliber sniper rifle and the right-wing-crazy background roams through the city filled with the most powerful politicians on earth . ..

A serial killer is mimicking the murders that happen on a video game created by the Monkeewrench corporation but with three people dead and a video game that includes seventeen murders, the police and the Monkeewrench staff are scrambling to find out who is next and who the murderer is.

A novel of connections in which history, lust, contemporary urban Native American life, hand-me-down names, and legends, as well as sacred myth, combine.

Emily, who is twelve-years-old, and her family take a trip to see the Chicago World's Fair. When they return home, they discover that the economy has taken a turn for the worse, so Emily tries to figure out what she can do to help the thousands of homeless and hungry people.

The people of modern Minneapolis go about their daily business unaware that an age-old war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts is being fought in their midst. Only Eddi can see the battle and she has been drafted into the war.

High school senior Kevin Doyle struggles to fit in at school while hiding some disturbing secrets, including his attraction to another boy in his class, his father's plans to abandon his family on the same day Kevin's mother was killed in a car accident, and the doubts that his mother's death may have been suicide.