David Housewright
Author
Series
Rushmore McKenzie mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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 McKenzie she reaches out to when her relatively new boyfriend goes missing. Despite his reservations about getting involved with the Muehlenhaus family--again--McKenzie agrees to look for one Juan Carlos Navarre. What he finds, though, is a man who appears to be a ghost. The...
Author
Series
McKenzie novel volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Twin Cities P.I. Mac McKenzie is called in by the First Lady of Minnesota when she receives an e-mail hinting at nasty rumors about her husband, but as Mac begins sifting through the governor's past, he uncovers lies and decades-old secrets.
Author
Series
McKenzie novel volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Hired by an insurance company to help ransom a stolen gem, Rushmore McKenzie learns that the reputedly cursed gem causes the death or ruination of everyone who owns it, a situation that is complicated by the untimely murder of one of the thieves.
5) Highway 61
Author
Series
McKenzie novel volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Rushmore McKenzie is a former cop, current millionaire, and an occasional unlicensed P.I. who does favors for friends. Yet he has reservations when his girlfriend's daughter asks him to help her father Jason Truhler, the ex-husband of McKenzie's girlfriend, and a man in serious trouble. En route from St. Paul to a Canadian blues festival on Highway 61, he met a girl, blacked out, and awoke hours later in a strange motel, with the girl's murdered body...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"During one of the first heavy snows of the winter, on the interstate outside the Twin Cities, Rushmore McKenzie is behind a truck behaving erratically when the man in the truck bed dumps a body out onto the road, right in front of McKenzie's car. McKenzie avoids hitting the body, a bound woman who is just barely alive, but his stopped car in the middle of the road starts a chain of accidents, resulting in a thirty-seven car pile-up. By the time the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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 as "That Wykoff Woman," was just a young apprentice when her intimate representation and the fact of the McInnis's marriage caused rumors to fly--and Louise to hide away for decades. All of McInnis's paintings are in museums or known private collections, until...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Since becoming an unlikely millionaire and quitting the St. Paul Police Department, Rushmore McKenzie has been working as an unlicensed private investigator, basically doing favors for friends and people in need. But even for him, this latest job is unusual. He's been asked to find a stolen Stradivarius, known as the Countess Borromeo, that only the violinist seems to want him to find. Stolen from a locked room in a B & B in the violinist's former...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In David Housewright's next hardboiled mystery Something Wicked, Rushmore McKenzie, who promised to retire after his last nearly-fatal case, gets talked into doing an old friend a favor involving a castle, a family fighting over an inheritance, and at least one mysterious death. 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...
Author
Series
McKenzie novel volume 14
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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 need. When his stepdaughter Erica asks him for just such a favor, McKenzie doesn't have it in him to refuse. Even though it sounds like a very bad idea right from the start. The father of Malcolm Harris, a college friend of Erica's, was found murdered...
11) Like to die
Author
Series
McKenzie novel volume 15
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie became an unlikely millionaire and an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends. Erin Peterson is a local businessperson and owner of a growing food company called Salsa Girl. Someone seems to have a beef with her: the outside locks on her factory having been systematically filled with superglue. But for some reason, Erin didn't want to report this harassment...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Five prominent attorneys in Minneapolis have had their computer systems hacked and very sensitive case files stolen. Those attorneys are then contacted by an association of local whistleblowers known as NIMN and are quietly alerted that they have received those documents from an anonymous source. If those files are released, then not only will those lawyers be ruined, but it might even destroy the integrity of the entire Minnesota legal system. This...
Author
Series
Holland Taylor mystery volume 2
Publisher
Foul Play Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
16) In a hard wind
Author
Series
Twin Cities P.I. Mac McKenzie novels volume 20
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When asked to investigate a murder in a seemingly idyllic Minnesota town, Rushmore McKenzie finds that all the evidence points directly at his client"--
17) Madman on a drum
Author
Series
McKenzie novel volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Author
Series
Holland Taylor mystery volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Holland Taylor is a PI who does simple background checks and other mostly unchallenging cases. Still wounded by the long-ago death of his wife and daughter, and newly mourning a recently failed relationship, Taylor doesn't have much interest in more challenging work. But almost by accident, he finds himself in the middle of the crime of the century. Eleanor Barrington, the doyenne of a socially prominent family of great wealth, has been arrested for...
19) From the grave
Author
Series
McKenzie novel volume 17
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A past case comes back to haunt Minnesota P.I. McKenzie as a stolen sum of money threatens to resurface in From the Grave, the next mystery in David Housewright's award-winning 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 in dire need of working on his own behalf. His dear friend...
20) Dearly departed
Author
Series
Holland Taylor mystery volume 3
Publisher
A Foul Play Press Book
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
PI Holland Taylor of St. Paul searches for a missing woman, falling in love with her photo. Question is, was she murdered by a convicted rapist or, as Taylor hopes, did she disappear to get away from her husband.