David will join us at Fair Trade Books to sign copies of his two latest mysteries:
Them Bones: A McKenzie Novel (Twin Cities P.I. Mac McKenzie Novels #22)
Brief Description:
"A stolen dinosaur skull is at the center of a complex mystery laid at the feet of unofficial P.I. Rushmore McKenzie. There are two things that Rushmore McKenzie hates to turn down-a request from a friend and a challenge. Both of them show up in his wife's nightclub in the person of Angela Bjork, who has come to request McKenzie's help. McKenzie, once a homicide detective, now through a series of unlikely events, is a retired millionaire. But occasionally, for friends, he will do some unofficial private detective work. Over the years, he's hunted down a stolen Stradivarius, the hoard of 1930's gangster, and recovered a stolen, apparently cursed, artifact but McKenzie never imagined a case like this. An exceedingly rare dinosaur skull has been stolen. Angela, a doctoral candidate, was out on a dig site in Southeastern Montana, when she found a skeleton of an Ankylosaurus. And no sooner than when the skull was removed and placed on a truck then they were attacked, the truck and skull stolen. Worried that nothing is being done to find the stolen skull, she turns to McKenzie. Worth millions on the black market, the chance to recover it becomes fainter by the day. And the people behind the theft are likely willing to do anything, to anyone, to hold onto it"--
Girl in a Dumpster
Holland Taylor returns in Girl in a Dumpster, the sixth book in David Housewright’s Edgar Award-winning hardboiled detective series.
Party girl Henrietta Weller wakes up one morning in a dumpster behind a bar in Minneapolis’ notorious north side with no memory of how she got there. She hires Taylor and his partner Sidney Poitier Fredericks to get answers. And revenge. “So there’s no misunderstanding later—someone threw me away like so much garbage. Someone is going to pay for that.”
Taylor soon discovers that the woman was kidnapped and ransomed back to her mother. What’s more, she wasn’t the only victim. A sophisticated kidnapping ring has targeted the daughters of Minnesota’s rich and famous—and infamous. Taylor and Freddie insist that the FBI be informed. However, a financial guru and fixer for the families demands that the incidents be dealt with and forgotten. Until there’s another kidnapping. And another. And Taylor and Freddie are forced to take matters into their own hands—no matter what the cost.
DAVID HOUSEWRIGHT has won the Edgar Award and is the three-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award for his crime fiction. He is a past president of the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA). He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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