When Carley loses her high-profile job and her partner in the span of a few short months, she returns to the place that feels most like home-her childhood cabin on Pelican Lake, Minnesota. But when a teenager is abducted, it becomes clear that her once-sleepy vacation community has its share of secrets-and someone who will kill to keep them hidden. As her cabin becomes the epicenter of an investigation, Carley must question the neighbors she knows and trusts. Will she uncover the shocking truth before things turn deadly? In this cozy mystery, one small community learns that the view from the dock isn't always what it seems.
In 1894 Wisconsin game wardens Horace Martin and Josiah Hicks were dispatched to arrest Joe White, an Ojibwe ogimaa (chief), for hunting deer out of season and off-reservation. Martin and Hicks found White and made an effort to arrest him. When White showed reluctance to go with the wardens, they started beating him; he attempted to flee, and the wardens shot him in the back, fatally wounding him. Both Martin and Hicks were charged with manslaughter in local county court, and they were tried by an all-white jury. A gripping historical study, The Murder of Joe White contextualizes this event within decades of struggle of White’s community at Rice Lake to resist removal to the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation, created in 1854 at the Treaty of La Pointe. While many studies portray American colonialism as defined by federal policy, The Murder of Joe White seeks a much broader understanding of colonialism, including the complex role of state and local governments as well as corporations. All of these facets of American colonialism shaped the events that led to the death of Joe White and the struggle of the Ojibwe to resist removal to the reservation.
The author of Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses shares tales of disaster and misfortune on the Great Lakes. Losing one's life while tending to a Great Lakes lighthouse sadly wasn't such an unusual occurrence. Death by murder, suicide or other tragic causes--while rare--were not unheard of. Two keepers on Lake Superior's Grand Island disappeared one early summer day in 1908, their decomposed remains found weeks later. A newly hired and some say depressed keeper on Pilot Island in Wisconsin's Door County slit his own throat after a consultation with a local butcher about the location of the jugular vein. A smallpox outbreak in the late 1890s led to the tragic death of a lighthouse hired hand on South Bass Island in Lake Erie. Join author Dianna Stampfler as she uncovers the facts (and debunks some fiction) behind some of the Great Lakes' darkest lighthouse tales.
In a shocking and bizarre incident, a volleyball coach dies violently in a volleyball net. Carley, who returned to her lake home on Pelican Lake to regroup from her own life events, is named to succeed him midseason. An alum of the university, Carley steps into a complex web of relationships and turmoil. In this cozy mystery, her team struggles with the death of their coach and the secrets that lie beneath it. Carley and Mark, an FBI agent who has become her good friend and ally, uncover clues that lead to important revelations about the coach and his death.
Alice K. Lambert is the wealthy and successful owner of Lambert House, a large and elegant ADA-certified bed and breakfast on Maui. Alice enjoys good champagne in the morning, cooking and baking creatively, surfing, traveling, and advocating for persons with disabilities. Most of her guests are friendly and eager to explore the wonders of Hawaii. Then one day, gentle Elmer and nasty Thelma Ford arrive from Reno, with Thelma loudly announcing that Elmer now has the brain of an eight
Stories of sportsmen past come to life in History Afield, an account of the many and varied sporting pursuits that are part of the Wisconsin tradition. Author and outdoorsman Robert Willging shares more than two dozen tales of Wisconsin sporting history, highlighting the hunt for waterfowl, upland birds, and deer; trout fishing in wild north Wisconsin rivers; and recreating at early Wisconsin lakeside resorts. Anecdotes of fishing exploits on our plentiful waterways and presidential visits to northern Wisconsin reveal a unique slice of sporting culture, and chapters on live decoys and the American Water Spaniel demonstrate the human-animal bond that has played such a large part in that history. Tales of nature’s fury include a detailed account of the famous Armistice Day storm, as well as the dangers of ice fishing on Lake Superior. These historical musings and perspectives on sporting ethos provide a strong sense of the lifestyle that Willging has preserved for our new century. Featuring first-hand interviews and a variety of historic photos depicting the Wisconsin sporting life, History Afield shows how the intimate relationship between humans and nature shaped this important part of the state’s heritage.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder—a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds there is only one person she can trust—an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate—to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
A mysterious murder exposes a dangerous crime lord. In this fascinating work, both sides of a decades-long case are explored and uncovered. Tulsa computer tycoon Roger Wheeler discovered that he was being defrauded by a group of organized criminals in Boston led by Whitey Bulger. When Wheeler acted against the criminals, Bulger's gang took matters into their own hands. Wheeler's murder sparked events that led prosecutors across the country in search of the truth. This riveting true story lays out how the unrelenting efforts of the family of the murdered Oklahoma businessman led to this crime boss's downfall.
Steamy Days Ashley has one last summer at home, Jared is looking to get away, neither expects what's headed their way. Ashley has just graduated and only has a couple months of freedom left before working life starts. She's determined to enjoy every moment she has, in between helping her parents at the little store they've run most of her life. Jared had to get away from the city. Injured in the line of duty, he's developed an addiction to the pain medication and has spent several months trying to get clean. What he doesn't expect is the sweet sass he finds at the little store. When life, and Jared's meddling mother, gets in their way, will they fight for what feels right or let it all slip away? Smoldering Sunsets She just wants to be left alone. He couldn’t leave her to suffer her terror alone. Can he help her figure out how to stop her stalker? Stephanie goes home to visit her parents, hoping the boy she’d dated would give up. When he shows up, and the harassment continues. How can she get him to stop? Noah sees the fear on the girls face and try as he might, he just can’t walk away. He didn’t expect the beautiful, scared girl to be funny and amazing, much less from the same town he came from. Can Stephanie and Noah figure out how to make the terror end, or will what they have just be a summer fling. Sultry Nights He’s spent the last ten years trying to forget her. She’s tried to move on. But when they’re thrown together can they overcome the history between them? Zach has spent most of his life along the shores of Pelican Lake. He grew up here, he fell in love here, and it was here he had his heart broken. Now, after more than ten years, she’s back in town. The girl he planned to marry. The girl who broke his heart. But she’s not a girl anymore and he’s not the kid who got left behind. Dani didn’t want to leave, but had to move with her family. She spent ten years believing Zach had walked away when she needed him the most. Ten years have passed and she’s done her best to move on. But when the best job opportunity takes her right back to where he is, can she face him and the past together? Sizzling Summer Reunion Bonus story The next summer the siblings reunite, there are a lot of changes in their little family.
Ashley just graduated college and has gone home for one last free summer. She never planned to meet Jared. Jared has issues of his own. He's come to the lake to get away from temptation and easy access. What he finds there is even more tempting. Stephanie has come home for part of her summer vacation, but what she failed to tell her parents is she's hiding from a stalker. When Noah spots her terror, he steps in to offer help. But is there more here than meets the eye? Zach has lived along the shores of Pelican Lake for most of his life. He grew up here, he fell in love here and he had his heart broken here. Now after more than ten years, he sees her again. Dani. The girl he loved. The girl he planned to marry. The girl who broke his heart. But she's not a girl any more. More than ten years has passed and he wonders why she's come back. Lust, terror, rage, jealousy, hurt. None of them knew what a single summer on Pelican Lake would hold but can they make it work out? Buy The Pelican Lake Trilogy now to find out.
