Jerry Sciarrio
1) Iron Lake
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Cork O'Connor mystery volume 1
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Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor is the former sheriff of Aurora, Minnesota. Embittered by his "former" status, and the marital meltdown that has separated him from his children, Cork gets by on heavy doses of caffeine, nicotine, and guilt. Once a cop on Chicago's South Side, there's not much that can shock him. But when the town's judge is brutally murdered, and a young Eagle Scout is reported missing, Cork takes on a...
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Cork O'Connor mystery volume 3
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Cork O'Connor is called in to investigate when a deadly explosion rocks the lumber mill of Karl Lindstrom, a wealthy, anti-environmentalist industrialist, whose mill is near an ancient tract of pine forest sacred to the Anishinaabe tribe.
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Cork O'Connor mystery volume 2
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The Quetico-Superior Wilderness: more than two million acres of forest, white-water rapids, and uncharted islands on the Canadian/American border. Somewhere in the heart of this unforgiving territory, a young woman named Shiloh---a country-western singer at the height of her fame---has disappeared. Her father arrives in Aurora, Minnesota, to hire former sheriff Cork O'Conner to find his daughter, and Cork joins a search party that includes an ex-con,...
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The second exciting installment in this series will continue the story of the rise of the Antichrist and the journey of the other main characters as time, unknown to them, hurdles toward the Rapture. Readers will want every possible soul saved to avoid the 7-year Tribulation, and they will see why characters such as Rayford, Chloe and Buck fail to believe. Events in Israel will be heating up, and some main characters like Rayford and Buck are thrust...
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Code of the West volume 1
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Pepper Paige is tired of her life as a dance hall girl and tired of fearing Jordan, a violent patron who is interested in her. When a stagecoach wrecks, and a woman dies in her room, Pepper assumes her identity and leaves town. The role Pepper has assumed is one of a refined Christian lady on her way to marry a rancher she only knows through letters. But the rancher has been killed by Indians and the man she goes to meet has assumed his identity....
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Octogenarian Paul Jacobson, who suffers from short-term memory loss, discovers a body stuffed in the trash shoot of his retirement home. Jacobson's running narrative (he writes a journal to stay current with his present-day life) is both humorous and heartbreaking. -- TitleSource III.
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Paul Jacobson geezer-lit mystery volume 5
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Octogenarian Paul Jacobson returns to Hawaii for a vacation with his family and becomes involved in a series of crimes, while struggling with the problems of his short-term memory loss. He faces a number of strange coincidences involving acts of vandalism, drug dealers and two murders. Paul puts all the pieces together, escapes a watery grave, and with the help of his friends, solves the murders.
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Paul Jacobson geezer-lit mystery volume 6
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Jacobson becomes an undercover resident at a nursing home to help the Honolulu police track down a sexual assault perpetrator. The police gave Paul the names of three persons-of-interest, but none of the three appear suspicious. Things go downhill when the woman who had been assaulted is found murdered.
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In the fourth Paul Jacobson Geezer-lit mystery, crotchety octogenarian Paul Jacobson becomes involved in a series of crimes while struggling with the problems of his short-term memory loss. On a honeymoon cruise to Alaska with his bride, Paul must deal with mayhem, missing people, and murder. And he will have to use all his geezer resources to solve a case of international intrigue.
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Imagine waking up in a place you didn't recognize, not remembering anything from the day before and then finding a dead body. Cantankerous octogenarian Paul Jacobson must solve a series of murders while struggling with the problems of his short-term memory loss. Paul learns about the homeless community, disreputable art dealers and the beach scene in Venice Beach, California, and must dance a geezer two-step to stay out of the clutches of the police...