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David Housewright
When his wife finds the body of an Army veteran in the lake, it is inevitable that former cop, now unofficial P.I. Rushmore McKenzie will get enmeshed in a complicated…
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THE TAKING OF LIBBIE, SD, A McKenzie Novel by David Housewright. 7th in series.
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Ten remarkably diverse short stories filled with scheming characters, unexpected twists, and writing that’ll sneak up on you from the Edgar Award winning crime novelist. A good short story is…
A Minneapolis PI investigates the murder of the man who killed his wife.
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Riley Brodin is the granddaughter of Walter Muehlenhaus - a man as rich, powerful, and connected as anyone since the days of J P Morgan. Despite her family’s connections, it’s…
Thirteen-year-old James Richard McNulty has problems. His mother has just divorced his father. His grades are plummeting. Bullies are menacing him on the school bus. The coach is threatening to…
MADMAN ON A DRUM, a Mac McKenzie Mystery by David Housewright. 5th in series.
JELLY’S GOLD, a Mac McKenzie Mystery by David Housewright. 6th in series.
CURSE OF THE JADE LILY, a McKenzie Novel by David Housewright. 9th in series.
A HARD TICKET HOME, a McKenzie Mystery by David Housewright. 1st in series.
PRETTY GIRL GONE, a McKenzie Novel by David Housewright. 3rd in series.
A recording of a lost woman’s voice sends Holland Taylor on a wild hunt.
Rushmore McKenzie has been working as an unlicensed private investigator, basically doing favours for friends and people in need. But even for him, this latest job is unusual. He’s been…
HIGHWAY 61, a McKenzie Novel by David Housewright. 8th in series.
Brash and resourceful PI Holland Taylor takes on an unpromising embezzlement case: an elderly woman has been cheated out of her life savings. But when he tracks down the unscrupulous…
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P.I. Holland Taylor returns in David Housewright’s Edgar Award-winning series-Taylor is hired to recover stolen files before they are leaked, putting the entire legal system at risk
DEAD BOYFRIENDS, a Mac McKenzie Mystery by David Housewright. 4th in series.
Originally published: New York: Minotaur Books, 2015.
Louise Wykoff is arguably the most recognizable woman living in Minnesota, known for her presence in over one hundred paintings by the late and brilliant Randolph McInnis. Louise, known better…
Former policeman Holland Taylor of St. Paul is hired by an elderly woman to recover the money she lost in an investment scam.
TIN CITY, a McKenzie Novel by David Housewright. 2nd in series.
Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become not only an unlikely millionaire, but an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends and people in…
Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become an unlikely millionaire and an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends. The favor, this time, is…
In the latest book in David Housewright’s modern noir series, Rushmore McKenzie has been shot and lies in a coma, while the police and his friends desperately try to find…
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A case of stolen property takes a darker, deadlier turn.
THE LAST KIND WORD, a McKenzie Novel by David Housewright. 10th in series.
Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie became an unlikely millionaire and an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends. But this time, he finds himself…
Rushmore McKenzie was a detective with the St. Paul, Minnesota PD until unlikely events made him first a millionaire and then a retiree. Since then, he’s been an occasional unofficial…
When asked to investigate a murder in a seemingly idyllic Minnesota town, Rushmore McKenzie finds that all the evidence points directly at his client, in the next installment in David…
Rushmore McKenzie, a retired St. Paul policeman and unexpected millionaire, often works as an unlicensed PI, doing favors as it suits him. When graduate students Ivy Flynn and Josh Berglund…
Several years ago, Rushmore McKenzie became an unexpected millionaire and set about doing not much of anything. Now, showing up at his doorstep is the insurance company that paid the…
Louise Wykoff is arguably the most recognizable woman living in Minnesota, known for her presence in over one hundred paintings…
The clock is ticking as a former cop tries to find a friend’s missing daughter–as everyone he talks to ends up dead in this latest from the Edgar Award-winning author…
Homicide cop Bobby Dunston’s daughter has been kidnapped, taken in broad daylight on a city street in the middle of September. The kidnappers demand a million dollars and force Dunston…
Ex-St. Paul cop Rushmore McKenzie has more time, and more money, than he knows what to do with. In fact, when he’s willing to admit it to himself (and he…
Right up until they put him in jail, McKenzie thought the cops were kidding. After all, he did them a favour by stopping rookie cop from roughing up a distraught…
