Mary Logue Books In Order

Bloodwater Mysteries Books In Publication Order

  1. Snatched (2006)
  2. Skullduggery (2007)
  3. Doppelganger (2008)

Claire Watkins Books In Publication Order

  1. Blood Country (1999)
  2. Dark Coulee (2000)
  3. Glare Ice (2001)
  4. Bone Harvest (2004)
  5. Poison Heart (2005)
  6. Maiden Rock (2007)
  7. Point No Point (2008)
  8. Frozen Stiff (2010)
  9. Lake of Tears (2013)

Deadwood Mystery Books In Publication Order

  1. The Streel (2020)

Laura Malloy Books In Publication Order

  1. Still Explosion (1993)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Red Lake of the Heart (1987)
  2. The Haunting of Hunter House (1992)
  3. The Missing Statue of Minnehaha (1992)
  4. Dancing with an Alien (2000)
  5. Giving up the Ghost (2013)

Picture Books In Publication Order

  1. Sleep Like a Tiger (2012)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Discriminating Evidence (1990)
  2. Settling (1997)
  3. Meticulous Attachment (2005)
  4. Hand Work (2009)
  5. Heart Wood (2020)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Halfway Home (1996)
  2. Forgiveness (1997)
  3. A Life of Love: The Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browing (1997)
  4. Trust (2002)
  5. Imagination (2002)

Science Around Us Children’s Books In Publication Order

  1. Sea Jellies (2004)
  2. Sea Stars (2004)
  3. Sponges (2004)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Believing Everything (1980)

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Mary Logue Books Overview

Snatched

Roni Delicata is the pushy crime reporter for the school newspaper The Bloodwater Pump. Brian Bain is a quiet science geek who has a tendency to blow things up. Ordinarily, they would have nothing to do with each other. But today isn t an ordinary day: their snobby classmate Alicia Camden has been Snatched. Soon enough, Roni and Brian are on the case. But as they dig deeper into the mystery, they find nothing but suspects: Alicia’s hothead boyfriend Maurice, her creepy stepfather, and even Driftwood Doug, the hobo who always seemed to be watching Alicia from the woods. It s up to Roni and Brian to find Alicia and reveal the shocking secret that led to her disappearance. An eerie mystery that never loses its sense of humor, Snatched marks the beginning of a great new series set in the small town of Bloodwater featuring two offbeat detectives you ll be thrilled to meet.

Skullduggery

While on a class field trip, Roni Delicata and Brian Bain find a local archaeologist unconscious in a cave. Professor Andrew Dart is trying to find evidence of an Indian burial ground to stop the Bloodwater family from developing the site. But it is Dr. Dart who has been stopped first, in this exciting follow up to ‘Snatched.’

Doppelganger

Brian and Roni are looking for another case to crack when Roni finds an age progressed picture of a boy who looks alarmingly like Brian on a missing children website. Brian is sure it is only a coincidence after all, he’s lived happily with his adoptive parents for as long as he can remember. But then again, his parents have never really told him about his adoption…
Could there be more to his family history than he knows? As Roni and Brian piece together the clues, other people emerge from the shadows of the past and suddenly Brian isn t just a detective on the case he s the key to a mystery that everyone is after. Can he and Roni uncover the truth before it s too late? Featuring the strong plotting and offbeat humor that won the Bloodwater Mysteries a prestigious Edgar nomination, Doppelganger is full of twists and turns that will keep readers guessing until the very end.

Blood Country

Police officer Clare Watkins moves with her young daughter to Wisconsin to get away from the past and it’s bad memories. But Clare doesn’t know that her ten year old daughter Meg not only witnessed the hit and run accident that killed her father, she had also seen the man who was driving…
and had been seen by him.

Dark Coulee

Blood Relations Though life in the rural Wisconsin border country is having some healing effects for ex Minneapolis cop Claire Watkins, she is still plagued by nightmares of past tragedy. Now she’s plunged into a shattering murder case that will force her to confront the demons that still haunt her. Jeb Spitzer is knifed to death at the local harvest moon dance. A widower for four years, he leaves three teenagers orphaned. But Claire senses a feeling of desperate relief among the three kids. As she peels back the layers of the crime, she uncovers a shocking connection to Spitzer’s wife’s ‘accidental’ death, and secrets that premeditated both incidents. But in order to prevent another senseless death, she will have to confront the human capacity to kill from which she herself is not immune.

Glare Ice

Too often guys in pickup trucks drive on the ice of Lake Pepin before it’s thick enough to hold their vehicles. A little drinking is usually one of the underlying causes of this stupid move. But Buck was tied to the driver’s seat, and that makes it murder. Claire Watkins knows that Buck’s been seeing Stephanie Klaus, and she knows Stephanie has been beaten. Does that mean Stephanie had something to do with his death? It wouldn’t be the first time a battered woman has struck back with deadly force. All things considered, Claire hasn’t been having a good time, generally, and things were beginning to look as threatening as the winter clouds. Then Stephanie is found beaten again and it’s all too clear that Buck wasn’t responsible for the abuse; did that mean that whoever was is the murderer? Would she be able to get Stephanie to trust her and tell her what she needed to know before there was another corpse? Then a bad storm blows in on the winter solstice bringing four feet of snow, howling winds, no power, closed roads, and a message that gives Claire all she needs to know except how to get to the killer and stop him.

Bone Harvest

Then the quiet was broken. The baby reached up a hand and jerked at the tablecloth. A spoon hit her on the head, and she started to cry. Bertha Schuler stuck her head out the door and called that dinner was ready. The clock in the hallway struck the half hour. And the first shot was fired. The unsolved murders at a remote Wisconsin farmhouse half a century ago have receded into time. But one deranged man will do anything to make sure that all of Pepin County remembers that bloody day. The world was out of balance. It had been so for nearly fifty years. Only he could see it. Only he could change it. When a quantity of dangerous pesticides is stolen from the local co op, Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins is called in to investigate. The thief has left one bizarre clue: the finger bone of a child long dead. The pesticides soon reappear with devastating effect in flowerbeds, in animal feed, and in a fatal concoction at a Fourth of July picnic. Each time, a tiny human bone is left at the scene. With the help of Harold Peabody, the quirky, aging editor of the Durand Daily, Claire unravels the secrets of the past, leading her to a pair of young lovers, a man enraged over his mother’s death, an obsessive recluse, and the deputy who first discovered the corpses of the Schuler family Claire desperately races against time to find the madman before he uses the lethal pesticide again. But he won t be stopped. Not until he gets what he wants. The truth must be told. Or more will die. The flowers and the birds were only the beginning…
. Written with Mary Logue s trademark power and compassion, Bone Harvest is a bold, brilliant thriller that carries the reader deep into the heart of the Wisconsin bluffs country, into the hearts of its people and to a startling conclusion. From the Hardcover edition.

Poison Heart

Fall comes to Pepin County with a vengeance as Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins confronts a new evil festering beneath the placid surface of the Wisconsin farm community. A refugee from the Twin Cities, Claire has slowly adapted to small town life especially now that she loves and lives with Rich Haggard. But in this rural area, other folks are dangerously restless. One is Daniel Reiner, a wealthy part time resident who’s been buying up too much land at least as far as the locals are concerned. Another is gambling addict and aging gold digger Patty Jo Tilde, who recently married a widower twenty years her senior. Patty is itching to inherit her husband s property, sell it to Reiner, and leave the countryside behind. The only stumbling block her husband must die. Add to the mix a suspicious goat herding daughter in law and a wounded elk, and things quickly reach a boiling point. As Claire Watkins delves deeper into the mystery, she believes she s uncovered a deadly history of lies, deceit, arson, and poison. Her problem is to prove it and then she learns what happened to Patty Jo s last husband…
. Evoking the strong community values and the natural beauty of the Mississippi River Valley, this new Claire Watkins novel is Logue s most exciting yet. Poison Heart is a riveting tale of those who live off the land and those who end up six feet under it. From the Hardcover edition.

Maiden Rock

Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins is back, in this tragic, personal follow up to Poison Heart. Claire’s daughter Meg is struggling with depression after an all night high school Halloween party, Meg’s best friend was found dead of an apparent suicide at the foot of Maiden Rock. Krista and Meg had fought at the party, over a boy, and Krista had run off. Meg feels responsible, but what shocks the deputy is that Krista was found with meth in her system. Now Claire is faced with a growing trend in her rural town meth labs, doped up teenagers, and young girls just looking for a way to escape their small town lives.

Point No Point

The seventh book in the Claire Watkins mystery series. Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins is faced with a difficult case when a friend of the family is suspected of killing his wife. Her investigation puts a great stress on her relationship with her husband. Things are further strained when the suspect attempts suicide, solidifying his guilt in Claire’s mind. But what if she’s wrong?

Frozen Stiff

Book eight in the Claire Watkins mystery series finds car mogul Daniel Walker celebrating New Year’s Eve alone, roasting in his sauna. At midnight he runs outside for a quick roll in the snow…
and the next morning he’s found dead naked, frozen, and covered in snow. While solving this midwinter crime, Claire realizes how tenuous love is, and how frozen she’s been since the death of her first husband. Mary Logue is an award winning poet and mystery writer. She has taught for many years at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and at Hamline University in St. Paul.

Still Explosion

While researching a story on abortion, journalist Laura Malloy becomes caught up in the lives of the people devastated by the recent bombing of the Lakeview Family Planning Clinic.

Dancing with an Alien

BRANKO:I am here. On this very green Earth. The sun shines for fourteen hours and thirty three minutes today. The sky is blue like they said it would be.I am here on a mission. I have only a short time to do what I was sent here to do.I am here to find a female. TONIA:I went down to the beach today. There was one boy I’d never seen before. Quite tall. Gold complexion. Foreign looking. He watched me swim. He was with an older man. I think it was the one whose daughter disappeared a few years ago. They would give the world for love. Branko is here on Earth for only a short time. He has come on a grave mission: He must find a female. He must bring her home. What will happen to her on his planet isn’t quite clear. What is clear is that without her, the planet could die. Tonia loves summer. But something is different about thsi summer. Her best friend is changing. Her family is fighting. And then she meets someone unlike anyone she’s ever met before. This summer could change everything. When their worlds collide, it’s like nothing Branko or Tonia could ever have imagined. Mary Logue spins a chilling tale of deeply felt passion that takes root in the shadow of a desperate mission. The result is a love story unlike any other. Books for the Teen Age 2001 NYPL, 2001 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers ALA, and 2001 Best Books for Young Adults ALA

Hand Work

These beautifully made poems continue Logue’s lyrical examinations begun with Discriminating Evidence, Settling, and Meticulous Attachment — her three previous books of poetry. In Discriminating Evidence we saw the poet letting go of the past. In Settling we witnessed the poet embracing the future without fear. In Meticulous Attachment we shared the poet’s transcendent desire to live in the moment.

But during the last days of 2002, Logue admits she felt afraid. The world seemed unsettled, uncertain, and full of conflict. As the new year began, she resolved to write a poem a day as a way to regain her lost sense of control. Logue explains in her preface to Hand Work: ‘I believe that writing poems is doing good work that can change the nature of our world.’ Since 2003, she has carefully culled the poems she believes are ‘the better ones’ — her ‘good work’ — and offers them now as her fourth collection.

Halfway Home

Mae McNally Kirwin was born in 1894 in Chokio, a small prairie community in western Minnesota. In 1926, the sudden death of her husband left Mae to support herself and her five children. These facts were well known, but for Logue, they were not enough. Determined to get to know her grandmother better, Logue sets out to assemble the bits and pieces of her grandmother’s life. Along the way, Logue takes the reader and herself on a journey of discovery. Digging through forgotten bank records, old newspapers, handwritten census forms, family documents, and faded recipes, she pieces together the past. In the process, she tells a much larger story that of a community, a way of life, a family, and a single woman’s struggle to survive in a world that is both harsh and richly rewarding.

Forgiveness

Emphasizes the value of Forgiveness in this biography of the Indian leader who led his country to freedom from British rule through his policy of nonviolent resistance.

A Life of Love: The Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browing

Traces the life of the gentle English poet, with an emphasis on the value of love in her experiences.

Sea Jellies

Floating slowly through clear blue water, colorful Sea Jellies seem lovely and peaceful. But don’t let their tranquility trick you! Learn how these seemingly simple creatures sting and trap their prey, make copies of themselves, and even grow new body parts!

Sea Stars

Along the ocean floor, multicolored stars and suns shine, lilies bloom, and cucumbers grow. These creatures are all members of the sea star family. Young readers will explore the gardens of Sea Stars that brighten the bottom of our oceans.

Sponges

Scientists once thought that the sponge was a kind of plant. In fact, Sponges are some of the world’s oldest animals! Readers will be amazed as they explore the many secrets of the sponge, its life cycle, and its many uses in the modern world.

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