Death Stalks Door County by Patricia Skalka

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Six deaths mar the holiday mood as summer vacationers enjoy Wisconsin’s beautiful Door County peninsula. Murders, or bizarre accidents? Newly hired park ranger Dave Cubiak, a former Chicago homicide detective, assumes the worst but refuses to get involved. Grief-stricken and guilt-ridden over the loss of his wife and daughter, he’s had enough of death.

In a setting of stunning natural beauty and picturesque waterfront villages, Death Stalks Door County introduces a new detective series, “The Dave Cubiak Door County Mysteries.

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A Midsummer Night's Scream by R. L. Stine

A horror story just in time for Halloween. 

Six kids in a van deep in the woods in the middle of nowhere miles short of the lake lodge when they hit something in the road. Stay with the van or walk? And so they leave their stuff and walk until they find a creepy mansion deep in the forest. Their knocking brings no one to the door but since the door is unlocked, they enter and find the electricity is on.. and that is when the nightmare begins.

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Sharyn McCrumb's Ballad Novels

Sharyn Mccrumb is best known for her Appalachian "Ballad" novels - eleven total with the latest a novella: Nora Bonesteel's Christmas Past.



"My books are like Appalachian quilts," says Sharyn McCrumb. "I take brightly colored scraps of legends, ballads, fragments of rural life, and local tragedy, and I piece them together into a complex whole that tells not only a story, but also a deeper truth about the culture of the mountain South." 

Start with: If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O
Read more about this fascinating woman and her novels on her website:  http://www.sharynmccrumb.com

Bones Never Lie by Kathy Reichs

Seventh Book in the Temperance Brennan series, Brennan is investigating a cold case that is related to a new case in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Andrew Ryan and Brennan originally investigated Anique  Pomerleau, a Canadian, wanted for abduction and murder of several young girls. Pomerleau disappeared and was never captured.
Even Brennan's mother, living in a mental health facility, with terminal cancer, does research that helps Brennan tie the two cases together.
Slidell, homicide, and Brennan, forensic anthropologist, often work cases together in Charlotte and now they are looking at a murdered young girl, Lizzie Nance. This time the case also involves the jurisdiction of Quebec and Brennan's old partner both privately and professionally - Andrew Ryan. Andrew Ryan has been on leave from his job since his daughter died. Brennan tracks Ryan to Costa Rica and persuades him that he is needed on the case. Pomerleau has resurfaced and may be responsible for the disappearance of Shelly Leal who may still be alive. Ryan is reluctant but as the case heats up Brennan and Ryan are once again working together.
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Full Measure by T. Jefferson Parker

Patrick Norris returns home from Afghanistan eager to open a sport fishing business. But he is shocked to learn that the San Diego avocado ranch his family has long owned has been destroyed by wildfire and his parents are facing ruin. Find in New Large Print Fiction PARKER

The Perfect Witness by Iris Johansen

When Teresa Casali was young she discovered she had a strange gift:  the ability to read people’s memories.  But the gift seemed more like a curse as her mob boss father used her to gain the upper hand in his world of corruption and violence.  Exposed by her own family to the darkest impulses of mankind, Teresa is alone and unprotected.  She realizes that if she is to survive, she has to run. from Cover

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Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard

General George S. Patton Jr. died under mysterious circumstances in the months following the end of World War II. For almost seventy years, there has been suspicion that his death was not an accident - and may very well have been an act of assassination. from cover
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