Jack Fredrickson
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"Chicago PI Dek Elstrom is called into action when a man acquitted of his wife's murder asks Dek to investigate the strange circumstances around her death. A shocking chain of events occur after midnight one night on a quiet suburban street in West Chicago. The first neighbor hears a woman scream. The second sees the lights in the Tripps' house being switched on, one by one, room after room. The third receives a call from a voice he doesn't recognize,...
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Crime reporter Milo Rigg must uncover a brutal serial killer to restore his battered reputation in this first in a gripping new mystery series.
Exposing the botched murder investigation of three young boys has left Milo Rigg's reputation and career as a crime-reporting journalist in tatters. But when the naked, frozen bodies of two young sisters, Priscilla and Beatrice Graves, are found down a ravine in Chicago months later, there are disturbing...
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The "well-crafted seventh mystery featuring wily, wise-cracking Chicago PI Dek Elstrom ... [a] delightfully eccentric detective series" (Publishers Weekly).
When the man who's hired Dek Elstrom disappears, the private investigator's search for his missing client unearths some shocking findings.
The dead man is found spread-eagled on the top of a box car on an abandoned rail siding. He's dressed in a $2000 suit, yet half his teeth are rotten and...
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A body is exhumed-and a long-unsolved murder grows even more mysterious-in this "powerful" crime thriller set in small-town Illinois. Seventeen-year-old Betty Jo Dean was abducted and murdered thirty years ago. It took two days to find her body. She was found, fully dressed apart from her slacks, beneath a gnarled, stunted tree, shot in the back of the head. No one was ever charged in her death. Now, following an appeal from one of his constituents,...