David Housewright
Author
Series
McKenzie novel ; 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"During one of the first heavy snows of the winter, on the interstate outside the Twin Cities, Rushmore McKenzie is behind a truck behaving erratically when the man in the truck bed dumps a body out onto the road, right in front of McKenzie's car. McKenzie avoids hitting the body, a bound woman who is just barely alive, but his stopped car in the middle of the road starts a chain of accidents, resulting in a thirty-seven car pile-up. By the time the...
Author
Series
McKenzie novel ; 11
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Riley Brodin is the granddaughter of Walter Muehlenhaus--a man as rich, powerful, and connected as anyone since the days of J. P. Morgan. Despite her family's connections, it's McKenzie she reaches out to when her relatively new boyfriend goes missing. Despite his reservations about getting involved with the Muehlenhaus family--again--McKenzie agrees to look for one Juan Carlos Navarre. What he finds, though, is a man who appears to be a ghost. The...
Author
Series
McKenzie novel ; 14
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become not only an unlikely millionaire, but an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends and people in need. When his stepdaughter Erica asks him for just such a favor, McKenzie doesn't have it in him to refuse. Even though it sounds like a very bad idea right from the start. The father of Malcolm Harris, a college friend of Erica's, was found murdered...
Author
Series
McKenzie novel ; 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Right up until they put him in jail, McKenzie thought the cops were kidding. After all, he did them a favor by stopping a rookie cop from roughing up a distraught woman at a murder scene. But the next thing he knows, he’s in jail, missing an important date with his girlfriend and reliving nightmares he thought he had left far behind him—and vowing payback for all of it. If that means sticking his nose into an ongoing murder investigation, well,
...Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three compelling and unforgettable mysteries by Edgar Award winner David Housewright
Holland Taylor is comfortable in interrogation rooms. For years the cold, dark cells of the Minneapolis homicide squad were his turf, and with the help of his partner he wrung confessions out of countless killers. But that was long ago. In Penance,Taylor is on the other side of the desk. Tonight he is the suspect. Taylor’s career in the...
Holland Taylor is comfortable in interrogation rooms. For years the cold, dark cells of the Minneapolis homicide squad were his turf, and with the help of his partner he wrung confessions out of countless killers. But that was long ago. In Penance,Taylor is on the other side of the desk. Tonight he is the suspect. Taylor’s career in the...
Author
Series
McKenzie novel ; 13
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Since becoming an unlikely millionaire and quitting the St. Paul Police Department, Rushmore McKenzie has been working as an unlicensed private investigator, basically doing favors for friends and people in need. But even for him, this latest job is unusual. He's been asked to find a stolen Stradivarius, known as the Countess Borromeo, that only the violinist seems to want him to find. Stolen from a locked room in a B&B in the violinist's former...
Author
Series
Publisher
A Foul Play Press Book
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
PI Holland Taylor of St. Paul searches for a missing woman, falling in love with her photo. Question is, was she murdered by a convicted rapist or, as Taylor hopes, did she disappear to get away from her husband.
8) Like to die
Author
Series
McKenzie novel ; 15
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie became an unlikely millionaire and an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends. Erin Peterson is a local businessperson and owner of a growing food company called Salsa Girl. Someone seems to have a beef with her: the outside locks on her factory having been systematically filled with superglue. But for some reason, Erin didn't want to report this harassment...
Author
Series
McKenzie novel ; 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Several years ago, Rushmore McKenzie became an unexpected millionaire and set about doing not much of anything. Now, showing up at his doorstep is the insurance company that paid the settlement that made him rich—and they want a favor. Someone has stolen a very expensive gem from a local art museum and is willing to ransom it back. The only condition is that McKenzie has to be the go between. And this is no ordinary gem—it is a jade sculpture
...Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the latest book in David Housewright's modern nioir series, Rushmore McKenzie has been shot and lies in a coma, while the police and his friends desperately try to find out what McKenzie was doing and who tried to kill him ..."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Foul Play Press
Pub. Date
[i.e. 1997]
Language
English
Description
A real estate scam tips Holland Taylor off to a widespread, deadly conspiracy When a drunk driver kills her entire family, Florida retiree Irene Gustafson is left rich and alone. Between savings and life insurance, the death of her son and his family leaves her with nearly $300,000-a veritable fortune in a community where most live off social security. Following the advice of Ann Landers, Mrs. Gustafson hands the money over to an investment manager....
Author
Series
McKenzie novel ; 10
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Millionaire and unlicensed P.I. Rushmore McKenzie agrees to go undercover to help the ATF track a cache of stolen guns. After all, what could possibly go wrong?
Author
Series
McKenzie novel ; 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Rushmore McKenzie is a former cop, current millionaire, and an occasional unlicensed PI who does favors for friends. Yet he has reservations when his girlfriend’s daughter asks him to help her father Jason Truhler, the ex-husband of McKenzie’s girlfriend, and a man in serious trouble. En route from St. Paul to a Canadian blues festival on Highway 61, he met a girl, blacked out, and awoke hours later in a strange motel, with the girl’s murdered
...Author
Series
McKenzie novel ; 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Rushmore McKenzie is a retired cop, an unexpected millionaire, and an occasional unlicensed private investigator. So it isn’t the biggest surprise in the world when he’s attacked and kidnapped from his home—McKenzie has more than a few enemies out there with a grudge against him. But it is a surprise when it turns out his kidnapping is a case of mistaken identity.
McKenzie was taken to the small plains town of Libbie, South Dakota,
...Author
Series
McKenzie novel ; 16
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Louise Wykoff is arguably the most recognizable woman living in Minnesota, known for her presence in over one hundred paintings by the late and brilliant Randolph McInnis. Louise, known better as "That Wykoff Woman," was just a young apprentice when her intimate representation and the fact of the McInnis's marriage caused rumors to fly--and Louise to hide away for decades. All of McInnis's paintings are in museums or known private collections, until...
16) Pretty girl gone
Author
Series
McKenzie novel ; 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
17) From the grave
Author
Series
McKenzie novel ; 17
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie became an unlikely millionaire and an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends. But this time, he finds himself in dire need of working on his own behalf. His dear friend and first love Shelby Dunston attends a public reading by a psychic medium with the hope of connecting with her grandfather one final time. Instead, she hears McKenzie's name spoken by...
18) Something wicked
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In David Housewright's next hardboiled mystery Something Wicked, Rushmore McKenzie, who promised to retire after his last nearly-fatal case, gets talked into doing an old friend a favor involving a castle, a family fighting over an inheritance, and at least one mysterious death. Rushmore McKenzie was a detective with the St. Paul, Minnesota PD until unlikely events made him first a millionaire and then a retiree. Since then, he's been an occasional...
19) In a Hard Wind
Author
Series
McKenzie novel ; 20
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"When asked to investigate a murder in a seemingly idyllic Minnesota town, Rushmore McKenzie finds that all the evidence points directly at his client"--Provided by publisher
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Five prominent attorneys in Minneapolis have had their computer systems hacked and very sensitive case files stolen. Those attorneys are then contacted by an association of local whistleblowers known as NIMN and are quietly alerted that they have received those documents from an anonymous source. If those files are released, then not only will those lawyers be ruined, but it might even destroy the integrity of the entire Minnesota legal system. This...
