Resort to Murder Kudos & Updates

 Resort to Murder has found a new fan! Read columnist Theresa Bourke's thoughts in the Brainerd Dispatch.

"They were enjoyable reads that proved to show how much suspense and mystery can be packed into just a few short pages."

 

Resort editor William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike: A Novel (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster) was a 2022 Minnesota Book Awards finalist."a book about fathers and sons, long-simmering conflicts in a small Minnesota town, and the events that echo through youth and shape our lives forever."

 

Barbara DaCosta's latest children's picture book, Night Shadows (Seven Stories/Triangle Square) received a starred review from Kirkus: "Conversations about motivations and actions will abound as children absorb the impact of grace.” The book is illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Ed Young, their third collaboration.

Resort to Murder authors keep cranking out new works! Here are some from 2017–2018.

William Kent Krueger’s Desolation Mountain, will be out August 2018. His Sulfer Springs won the Left Coast Crime Lefty Award for Best Mystery Novel and was a Minnesota Book Award finalist.

Barbara DaCosta’s children's book Mighty Moby, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Ed Young, was a Minnesota Book Award finalist. Their previous collaboration, Nighttime Ninja, won the Children’s Choice Award. Both were published by Little, Brown.




Scott Pearson’s short story “Finders Keepers” was reprinted in the anthology Maximum Velocity from WordFire Press. Space Next, a space documentary he cowrote, has finished its run in IMAX theaters.


Carl Brookins' Grand Lac is available from Brookins Books.
When Edie Black's son, Sam, is arrested for murder, Edie calls her cousin, Marjorie Kane, in Minneapolis. Kane, a former exotic dancer, turns immediately to her partner, fellow independent special investigator, Alan Lockem. The pair are successful unlicensed investigators who specialize in unusual projects that appear to require strange solutions.

Pat Dennis explores Las Vegas, gambling and all-you-can eat buffets in Fat Old Woman in Las Vegas: Dieting, Gambling and Wicked Fun. An Amazon’s #1 bestseller in travel memoir.

Resort Author News

Why Did Santa Leave a Body: Yuletide Tales of Murder and Mayhem, is the title of a new collection of stories by Minnesota Authors. Edited by Brian Landon, and published by North Star Press, the anthology features wintertime foul play. Resort authors Michael Allan Mallory and Barbara DaCosta each have a story in the book. Michael's "Breakfast With Tiffany" takes a close look at a marriage, vengeance, and comeuppance. Barbara's "For Want of Some Gloves" examines the fine lines between honesty, delusion, and assumption.
Available through North Star Press or your local bookstore, or online.

Resort to Murder authors William Kent Krueger and David Housewright have once again been nominated for the Minnesota Book Award. Both have previously won the award!
Kent has been nominated for Vermillion Drift:
"When the Department of Energy puts an underground iron mine on its short list of potential sites for storage of nuclear waste, a barrage of protest erupts in Tamarack County, Minnesota, and Cork is hired as a security consultant. Deep in the mine during his first day on the job, Cork stumbles across a secret room that contains the remains of six murder victims. Five appear to be nearly half a century old—connected to what the media once dubbed "The Vanishings," a series of unsolved disappearances in the summer of 1964, when Cork’s father was sheriff in Tamarack County. But the sixth has been dead less than a week. What’s worse, two of the bodies—including the most recent victim—were killed using Cork’s own gun."

David's book is The Taking of Libbie, S.D.
Rushmore McKenzie is a retired cop, an unexpected millionaire and, occasionally, an unlicensed private investigator. So, it isn't the biggest surprise in the world when he's attacked and kidnapped from his home - McKenzie has more than a few enemies out there with a grudge against him. But it is a surprise when it turns out his kidnapping is a case of mistaken identity.

Michael Allan Mallory and Marilyn Victor's Killer Instinct is out: Four gray wolves are illegally shot in the North Woods of Minnesota and zoologist Lavender "Snake" Jones joins a team of wildlife investigators to discovery why.  Threats from a local eco-terrorist group escalate an already tense situation with local anti-wolf ranchers. When a suspect is murdered, Snake finds herself entangled in a desperate struggle to trap the killer whose gun sights are now set on her!

Jess Lourey's Octoberfest should be out this March.