This isn't your mother's Little House on the Prairie...Detective Marek Okerlund unknowingly passes by a dying man in a Dakota blizzardβand gets what he changed jobs to avoid: a homicide. Acting Sheriff Karen Mehaffey asks for a part-time detective to teach her the ropes and loses what she changed jo
Dead News: A Dakota Mystery
β Scribed by M.K. Coker
- Book ID
- 110777730
- Publisher
- M.K. Coker
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781310781773
- ASIN
- B01CHAJMUO
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
If it bleeds, it leads.Poised to win her first contested election in Eda County, South Dakota, Sheriff Karen Mehaffey is broadsided by bad news.Not only does a hooligan deface a turbine in the county's new wind farm, but Alyson Linderman, daughter of a Twin Cities media mogul, is found dead on the launch day of an electronics recycling center. Is it eco-terrorism in reverse or something more insidious?Branded as a bumbling pair of misfits, Karen and her detective-uncle, Marek Okerlund, must solve the high profile murder under a media microscopeβor they'll both lose their jobs.DEAD NEWS is a character-driven police procedural of a rural bent. Fifth in series. Word Count: 91,000. Occasional profanity. Minimal gore.
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