Good Reads - Fiction

Midwestern Murder Mysteries

Mystery series set in the Midwest

MYSTERY/ALLAN
Allan, Barbara – Antiques Roadkill – 2006
Serenity, a small Midwestern town, Brandy Borne, antiques collector & amateur PI

MYSTERY/BALZO
Balzo, Sandra – Uncommon Grounds – 2004
Brookhills, Wisconsin, Maggy Thorsen, coffee shop owner & amateur PI

MYSTERY/COLLINS
Collins, Kate – Mum’s the Word – 2004
New Chapel, Indiana, Abby Knight, flower shop owner & amateur PI

MYSTERY/FERRIS
Ferris, Monica – Crewel World – 1999
Excelsior, Minnesota, Betsy Devonshire, needlework shop owner & amateur PI 

MYSTERY/FLUKE
Fluke, Joanne – Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder – 2000
Lake Eden, Minnesota, Hannah Swensen, cookie store owner & amateur PI

MYSTERY/GRULEY
Gruley, Bryan – Starvation Lake – 2009
Starvation, Michigan, Gus Carpenter, journalist & amateur PI

MYSTERY/GUNN
Gunn, Elizabeth – Triple Play – 1997
Rutherford, Minnesota, Jake Hines, police detective

MYSTERY/HEYWOOD
Heywood, Joseph – Ice Hunter – 2001
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Grady Service, conservation officer
 
MYSTERY/HOUSTON
Houston, Victoria – Dead Angler – 2000
Loon Lake, Wisconsin, Lewellyn Ferris, chief of police

MYSTERY/KRUEGER
Krueger, William Kent – Iron Lake - 1998
Northern Minnesota, Cork O’Connor, private investigator

MYSTERY/LOGUE
Logue, Mary – Blood Country – 1999
Fort St. Antoine, Wisconsin, Claire Watkins, deputy sheriff

MYSTERY/MCEVOY
McEvoy, John – Blind Switch – 2004
Chicago, Illinois, Jack Doyle, unemployed ad man & amateur PI

MYSTERY/PARETSKY
Paretsky, Sara – Indemnity Only – 1982
Chicago, Illinois, V.I. Warshawksi, professional PI  

FICTION/SANDFORD
Sandford, John – Dark of the Moon – 2007
Bluestem, Minnesota, Virgil Flowers, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator 

FICTION/SANDFORD
Sandford, John – Rules of Prey – 1989
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Lucas Davenport, Office of Special Intelligence lieutenant

MYSTERY/SWANSON
Swanson, Denise – Murder of a Small-Town Honey – 2000
Scumble River, Illinois, Skye Denison, school psychologist & amateur PI

MYSTERY/WEEKS
Weeks, J.C. – Season of Evil, Season of Dreams – 2011
Gold Hill, South Dakota, Ben Logan, police chief

MYSTERY/WRIGHT
Wright, Nina – Whiskey on the Rocks – 2005
Magnet Springs, Michigan, Whiskey Mattimoe, real estate agent & amateur PI

Prepared by Gretchen Rings, May 2011