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BOOKSDEAD WHITE: A Dakota Mystery was published on March 26, 2011. Currently it is available as an ebook on Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Apple, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. A trade paperback version is also available for order online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. It can also be ordered from your local bookstore. SUMMARY Detective Marek Okerlund unknowingly passes by a dying man chained to a fence in a Dakota blizzard—and gets what he changed jobs to avoid: a homicide. Acting Sheriff Karen Mehaffey asks for a detective to teach her the ropes and loses what she changed jobs to keep: peace in her family. Together, the estranged detective and sheriff must solve the case or both will be left out in the cold. DEAD DREAMS: A Dakota Mystery was published on December 17, 2012. Currently it is available as an ebook on Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Apple, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. The trade paperback version is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. It can also be ordered from your local bookstore. SUMMARY For Sheriff Karen Mehaffey, going for the stars—the sheriff’s stars—wasn’t turning out to be a dream come true. Flood waters are rising along with the thermometer, and the last thing she needs is a homicide, especially when all fingers point toward an old classmate. Detective Marek Okerlund, on the other hand, welcomes any distraction from the anniversary of his wife’s death and from his mother-in-law’s unannounced visit. Together, Karen and Marek must flush out a killer. Before the levee breaks. DEAD WRONG: A Dakota Mystery was published on March 6, 2014. Currently it is available as an ebook on Amazon USA (and worldwide sites), Apple, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. The trade paperback version is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. It can also be ordered from your local bookstore. SUMMARY The trucker who’d hit a Wrong Way sign lay hunched over the wheels of his semi—with his brains blown to bits, a revolver in his hand. When Sheriff Karen Mehaffey and Detective Marek Okerlund are called in, they’re ready to wrap up the case. Suicide. But it all goes wrong when the pathologist rules the gunshot wasn’t self-inflicted. So was it homicide—or a twisted form of assisted suicide? DEAD QUIET: A Dakota Mystery was published on March 8, 2015. Currently it is available as an ebook on Amazon USA (and worldwide sites), Apple, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. The trade paperback is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and independent bookstore Powells. It can also be ordered from your local bookstore. SUMMARY All’s quiet in Reunion, South Dakota, until word comes via horse and buggy: a killer is loose in the peaceful German Anabaptist community of Eder. Outsiders call them the Mock Brethren, who only wish to be left alone. Sheriff Karen Mehaffey wants to do just that—they shunned her mother. But when the patriarch, Elder Abraham Mock, is killed, she reluctantly answers the call, more afraid to find kin than a killer. DEAD NEWS: A Dakota Mystery was published on March 2, 2016. Currently it is available as an ebook on Amazon USA (and worldwide sites), Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. The trade paperback is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. It can also be ordered through your local bookstore. SUMMARY 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. Alyson Linderman, daughter of a Twin Cities media mogul, is found dead on the launch day of an electronics recycling center. Karen and her detective-uncle, Marek Okerlund, must solve the high profile murder under a media microscope—or lose their jobs. DEAD HOT: A Dakota Mystery was published March 30, 2017. Currently it is available as an ebook on Amazon USA (and worldwide sites), Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. A trade paperback is available at Amazon and can be ordered through your local bookstore. SUMMARY After losing a brutal election, Sheriff Karen Mehaffey and her uncle, Detective Marek Okerlund, are headed from South Dakota to New Mexico for a long delayed vacation and job hunt. But they'd barely arrived when a man dies on their motel doorstep, the victim of radiation poisoning. Fated for a busman's holiday, Karen and Marek find themselves entangled in a case hotter than the New Mexico sun. DEAD POOR: A Dakota Mystery was published April 29, 2018. Currently it is available as an ebook on Amazon USA (and worldwide sites), Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. A trade paperback is available at Amazon and can be ordered through your local bookstore. SUMMARY After an election recount, Karen Mehaffey's triumphant return as the sheriff of Eda County, South Dakota, is marred by the murder of her opponent, Bob "Baby" Bunting. His desecrated body is found in a local park where tensions simmer between park management, homeless squatters, and struggling residents of the adjoining trailer park. Where survival of the fittest is a way of life, will Karen and her detective-uncle, Marek Okerlund, come out on top... or will the killer ruthlessly destroy their homecoming? DEAD HEAD: A Dakota Mystery was published April 27, 2019. Currently, it is available as an ebook on Amazon USA (and worldwide sites), Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. A trade paperback is available at Amazon and can be ordered through your local bookstore. SUMMARY In a quiet roadside ditch in Eda County, South Dakota, prairie roses have sprung up along with constructions cones—and a fractured old skull. Sheriff Karen Mehaffey looks forward to a quiet little murder while Detective Marek Okerlund deals with a recalcitrant daughter. School is almost out... but the last day comes sooner for some, as girls go missing, one by one. DEAD TUNES: A Dakota Mystery was published April 6, 2020. Currently, it is available as an ebook on Amazon USA (and worldwide sites), Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. A trade paperback is available at Amazon and can be ordered through your local bookstore. SUMMARY His music pulled on their heartstrings... Until someone at the Big Jammer River Music Festival pulled a string tight around Hal Birchard's neck. To Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey and her detective-uncle, Marek Okerlund, the reclusive musician was a head-scratching mystery—his origins as murky as those of his strange fiddle. DEAD BALL: A Dakota Mystery was published October 13, 2021. Currently, it is available as an ebook on Amazon USA (and worldwide sites), Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. A trade paperback is available at Amazon and can be ordered through your local bookstore. SUMMARY A former star basketball player, Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey just wants to have fun watching the local girls' summer team play against an elite Dakota team that sports the country's top uncommitted college recruit. True, life-changing scholarship offers are on the line, but no one expected that murder would be done. Karen and her detective-uncle, Marek Okerlund, must play a deadly game of justice. DEAD SPIRITS: A Dakota Mystery was published November 15, 2022. Currently, it is available as an ebook on Amazon USA (and worldwide sites), Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. A trade paperback is available at Amazon and can be ordered through your local bookstore. SUMMARY A corpse is discovered at Spirit Mound, a Lewis and Clark exploration site in South Dakota reputed to harbor evil spirits. Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey, pulled back from her honeymoon, must deal with a clash of white and Native cultures over an archaeological dig at the mound. DEAD ROTE: A Dakota Mystery was published November 15, 2023. Currently, it is available as an ebook on Amazon USA (and worldwide sites), Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. A trade paperback is available at Amazon and can be ordered through your local bookstore. SUMMARY School is hell. Art teacher Nikki Solberg's job is on the chopping block, her estranged relatives are cheering her downfall, and someone trashed her art room. Not to mention a contentious school board meeting comes to a grinding halt when the new superintendent keels over from natural causes... or is it murder? DEAD ERRATICS: A Dakota Mystery was published November 15, 2024. Currently, it is available as an ebook on Amazon USA (and worldwide sites), Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. A trade paperback is available at Amazon and can be ordered through your local bookstore. SUMMARY Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey and her detective-uncle Marek Okerlund discover two bodies—one a skeleton and one freshly dead—in an abandoned insane asylum. If that wasn't enough, Karen gets blindsided when a relative suddenly exhibits signs of psychosis, throwing all her beliefs about mental illness into chaos. |
