Good Reads - Fiction

Mystery

Population 900

Books featuring crime-solvers in remote locations

MYSTERY/BOX
Box, C.J. - Open Season* - 2001, 293p.
Game Warden Joe Pickett
Twelve Sleep County, Wyoming

FICTION/FLYNN
Flynn, Gillian - Sharp Objects - 2006, 254p.
Investigative reporter Camille Preaker
Wind Gap, Missouri

MYSTERY/GREENLIEF
Greenlief, K.C. - Cold Hunter's Moon* - 2002, 295p.
Sheriff Lark Swenson and State Detective Lacey Smith
Big Oak, Wisconsin

MYSTERY/HAMILTON
Hamilton, Steve - A Cold Day in Paradise* - 1998, 277p.
Retired Detroit cop turned P.I., Alex McKnight
Paradise, Michigan

MYSTERY/HARSTAD
Harstad, Donald - Eleven Days* - 1998, 291p.
Iowa Deputy Sheriff, Carl Houseman
Nation County, Iowa

FICTION/JOHNSON
Johnson, Craig - The Cold Dish* - 2005, 354p.
Sheriff Walt Longmire
Absaroka County, Wyoming

MYSTERY/KRUEGER
Krueger, William Kent - Iron Lake* - 1998, 330p.
Former Sheriff, Cork O'Connor
Aurora, Minnesota

MYSTERY/LOGUE
Logue, Mary - Blood Country* - 1999, 313p.
Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins
Fort St. Antoine, Wisconsin

FICTION/MCCARTHY
McCarthy, Cormac - No Country for Old Men - 2005, 309p.
Sheriff Ed Tom Bell
Sanderson, Texas

MYSTERY/PICKARD
Pickard, Nancy - The Virgin of Small Plains - 2006, 335p.
Sheriff Nathan Shellenberger
Small Plains, Kansas

MYSTERY/READ
Read, Cornelia - A Field of Darkness - 2006, 308p.
Reporter Madeline Dare
Farming country in Onondaga County, New York

FICTION/SHARFEDDIN
Sharfeddin, Heather - Mineral Spirits - 2006, 250p.
Sheriff Kip Edelson
Mineral County, Montana

MYSTERY/SPENCER-FLEMING
Spencer-Fleming, Julia - In the Bleak Midwinter* - 2002, 308p.
Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne and Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson
Millers Kill, New York

MYSTERY/WEIR
Weir, Charlene - The Winter Widow* - 1992, 228p.
Chief of Police Susan Wren
Hampstead, Kansas

* Denotes first title in a series

Prepared by Suzy Miller, September 2007