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Doug Fletcher’s Thanksgiving vacation is interrupted by a phone call from his Texas U.S. Park Service superintendent. A Wyoming coroner determines that a climber’s fall from Devils Tower isn’t the accident it first appeared to be. Doug is thrown into an investigation where he peels back the layers of rumors and lies provided by colorful Black Hills residents to find a murderer in a region where the deer hunting season is winding down and everyone has a gun in their pickup truck.

A Park Service backpacking trip turns deadly when hikers are caught in a steep canyon during a flash flood. Three hikers are swept away, but a rescue team recovers four bodies. Park Service Investigator Doug Fletcher teams up with rangers Jill Rickowski and Liz Carpenter, and Navajo Nation Policeman Jamie Ballard. They hike river bottoms and arroyos searching for the origin of the fourth body, leaning on each other to overcome their fears, cultural differences, and emotional baggage. In the process they forge bonds that will last past the end of the investigation.

Hurricane Harvey lashed North Padre Island National Seashore exposing tons of silver coins lost since three Spanish Galleons sank in 1554. News about the coins, located in a Park Service archaeological protection area, goes viral on internet treasure hunting sites.

Park Service Investigator Doug Fletcher moves to Padre Island National Seashore to investigate hazardous waste dumping during the Hurricane Harvey clean up. While orienting himself to Texas and the waste dumping investigation, Doug and his rookie partner recover a body from the surf. After they identify John Doe, they coordinate kidnapping and murder investigations with the Corpus Christi Police. Doug’s search for the waste dumpers takes an unexpected twist, putting him at odds with the local police, his boss, and the FBI.

When a skeleton is found in the trunk of a long abandoned car, a thirty year-old missing persons investigation is reopened by the Pine County Sheriff's Department. The original investigator, now near retirement, takes the lead as he tries to find closure for himself by solving a crime that has haunted him for his entire career.

Doug Fletcher, a retired Minnesota detective, relocates to Arizona and a quiet life as a part-time National Park Service ranger. His plans change abruptly when a suspicious fall at a national monument plunges him into the world of stolen antiquities, ruthless drug smugglers, and shady antiques dealers. Working with Jamie Ballard of the Navajo Nation Police, Doug finds their investigation complicated by the demands of his visiting family, a new boss, an overly friendly neighbor, the FBI, and his new environment.

The car explosion that kills a pillar-of-the-community church deacon shakes the normally quiet small community of Pine Brook, Minnesota, especially Pine County sheriff's deputy Floyd Swenson. A Minnesota BCA agent, shares news of a nearby child abduction, followed by an informant’s report of a local drug ring. The cases don't seem to be connected but like all good cops, Floyd Swenson doesn't believe in coincidence, especially when it comes to murder. “This latest Pine County Mystery is the best to date. The author makes us face the fact that idyllic small town life isn’t always what ...

A 1998 cold case that is revived when undeveloped photos are discovered in a garage-sale camera. A photo of a missing man, obviously taken the night he disappeared leads Sergeant Floyd Swenson, of the Pine County Sheriff's Department, through an investigation of evasive friends, anonymous letters and the missing man's dysfunctional family. Like Where Evil Hides, Hooker, and Unforgettable, Dean Hovey takes the reader on a journey to rural Pine County where small town issues abound and many skeletons are hidden in the thousands of acres of lakes and swamps.

This is book #2 in the Pine County mystery series. Jean Oinen, haunted by a poor decision in her past, decides to rectify her mistake and set a new course for her future. She makes two phone calls that spiral into tragedy and leave the Pine County sheriff's department with a few scant clues to the events leading to her disappearance. Is this truly a murder, or has Jean cleverly managed to break the cycle of poor choices that has trapped her? Ann Skinner, contributing writer to the Hugonian wrote, "This is why I enjoyed Hooker so much; not only for its compelling drama and likable characters...

This is a light-hearted cozy set in Whistling Pines, a senior assisted-living facility. When Peter Rogers, the recreation director is asked to fill in for the director of the Two Harbors City Band there's no way he could anticipate that one of the band members would be targeted by a murderer during a concert at the Lake County Fair. While trying to find the attacker and trying to understand why one of his residents was injured by a bull in the cattle barn, Peter is stretched and stressed by his elderly neighbor, his girlfriend who wants Peter's colorful mother to meet her buttoned-down ...

Somewhere in rural Pine County Minnesota, a man of evil hides by day and stalks his female victims at night. His gruesome crimes point to a demented personality, yet his ability to elude the police shows the man to be of high intelligence and cunning. Undersheriff Dan Williams and Sergeant Floyd Swenson use every investigative technique, yet the man seems to be invisible. As they seek him out, the deputies become obsessed with a personality turned from young innocence to enraged sadism. With this his first novel, author Dean L. Hovey takes us into the inner workings of a rural county ...

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When longtime Whistling Pines resident Alf Palluzzo learns about a missing family treasure, he remembers the gold coins his parents squirreled away when he was young. He asks everyone for help as he tries to figure out the arcane clue to where they are. Peter Rogers, recreation director for the assisted-living center, wants to help Alf, but other residents also want his attention, his wedding to Jenny is fast approaching, and his elderly neighbor, Dolores, keeps showing up in his kitchen at awkward times. Peter, a former Navy corpsman, is on top of it all. But then there’s a fire, a ...

When Axel Olson is found murdered in his Whistling Pines senior apartment, no one is surprised and there is no shortage of suspects or motives in this light-hearted mystery. Axel's claim of being a war hero comes quickly into question, and his shady money making schemes are exceeded only by the number of people he's crossed or cheated. Soon, a rumor of bagpipes at the Olson funeral arises and recreation director Peter Roberts is assigned the task of finding a piper in Northern Minnesota, where none seem to exist. With time running short, the search for the piper seems hopeless just as the ...