Bøker av Dean L Hovey

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. 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 list of senior citizens coming to see a piper balloons. As the funeral drama unfolds the true story of Axel's military past is revealed, as is the identity of the killer.Reader N. Mohr says, "I laughed out loud. When's the sequel?"

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 parents, and an overly thankful musician who feels he saved her life. "A worthy sequel to Whispering Pines," wrote reader Frannie B. "It left me whistling Sousa marches with a smile on my face."

Doug and Jill Fletcher are dispatched to the Black Hills when a missing camper''s mutilated body is discovered in a remote part of Wind Cave National Park. Jill searches remote portions of Wind Cave for the victim''s missing companion while Doug tries to determine their identities. The park investigation revelations pull them into a local crime and put their lives at risk. A prairie blizzard brings everything in Western South Dakota to a stop as the pieces of the mysteries start to fall into place.  The stay at Jill''s family ranch takes an unexpected turn when Doug''s mother is invited for Christmas.

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.

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.