Mike Markel

A Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery

1 - Big Sick Heart (May-2010)
2 - Deviations (Jul-2012)
3 - The Broken Saint (May-2013)
4 - Three-Ways (May-2014)
5 - Swerve (Sep-2017)

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  Big Sick Heart
  

  • May-2010
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  A Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery - 1
  

  Bad decisions have finally caught up with police detective Karen Seagate. Her drinking has destroyed her marriage and hurt her job performance, and the chief is looking for any excuse to fire her. Still, she and her new partner, a young Mormon guy wh...

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  Deviations
  

  • Jul-2012
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery - 2
  

  Former police detective Karen Seagate is drinking herself to oblivion and having dangerous sex with losers from the bar when the new police chief tracks her down. The brutal rape and murder of a state senator by a lone-wolf extremist gives Seagate a ...

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  The Broken Saint
  

  • May-2013
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery - 3
  

  Seagate and Miner investigate the murder of Maricel Salizar, a young Filipino exchange student at Central Montana State. The most obvious suspect is the boyfriend, who happens to have gang connections. And then there's Amber, a fellow student w...

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  Three-Ways
  

  • May-2014
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery - 4
  

  When grad student Austin Sulenka is found strangled, nude on his bed, the first question for Detectives Seagate and Miner is whether it was an auto-asphyxiation episode gone wrong. Evidence strewn around his small apartment suggests that he spent his...

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  Fractures
  

  • Feb-2015
  • / Law Enforcement
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  The fracking boom in eastern Montana has minted a handful of new millionaires and one billionaire: Lee Rossman, the president of Rossman Mining and the leading philanthropist in the small city of Rawlings. Rossman is the last person Detectives Seagat...

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  The Reveal
  

  • Nov-2015
  • / Police Procedural
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  Many citizens in the small college town of Rawlings, Montana, are unsurprised to learn that Virginia Rinaldi, the world-famous sociologist, has been murdered. A few are secretly pleased. Her political enemies knew her as an ideologue who used insults...

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  Players
  

  • Aug-2016
  • / Law Enforcement
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  The death of Lake Williams, a former football player at Central Montana State, in his squalid tent in a homeless camp looks to Seagate and Miner like a routine heroin overdose. Soon, however, they discover that someone hired a courier to deliver the ...

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  Swerve
  

  • Sep-2017
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery - 5
  

  The Central Montana State community has waited a year to learn whether Syclone Systems, a maker of self-driving car technology, will enter into a long-term R&D partnership with the university. At a live demo on campus, where the company is expected t...

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  Victim Three
  

  • Jun-2019
  • / Police Procedural
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  When graduate student Cassandra Lyons is found stabbed behind the wheel of her car in her condo's garage, Detectives Seagate and Miner suspect her live-in boyfriend, Richard Harson. Only a week before, the police responded to a domestic-disturbance c...

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