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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2011
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Dakota Mystery

1 - Dead White (Apr-2011)
2 - Dead Dreams (Jan-2013)
3 - Dead Wrong (Mar-2014)
4 - Dead Quiet (Mar-2015)
5 - Dead News (Apr-2016)
6 - Dead Hot (May-2017)
7 - Dead Poor (May-2018)
8 - Dead Head (Apr-2019)
9 - Dead Tunes (Apr-2020)

Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • This isn't your mother's Little House on the Prairie... Detective Marek Okerlund unknowingly passes by a dying man in a Dakota blizzard-and gets what he changed jobs to avoid: a homicide. Acting Sheriff Karen Mehaffey asks for a part-time detective t...



  • Dreams can inspire, crush -- and even kill. For Karen Mehaffey, going for the stars -- the sheriff’s stars -- wasn’t turning out to be a dream come true. Flood waters are rising along with the thermometer, and the last thing she needs is a homici...



  • The trucker who’d hit a Wrong Way sign lay hunched over the wheels of his semi -- with his brains blown to bits, a revolver in his hand. Leo Jurczewsky had long talked of killing himself. So when Sheriff Karen Mehaffey and Detective Marek Okerlund ...



  • The ties that bind -- can kill. All’s quiet in Reunion, South Dakota, until word comes via horse and buggy: a killer is loose in the peaceful German Anabaptist community of Eder. Outsiders call them the Mock Brethren, who only wish to be left alone...



  • If it bleeds, it leads. Poised to win her first contested election in Eda County, South Dakota, Sheriff Karen Mehaffey is broadsided by bad news. Not only does a hooligan deface a turbine in the county’s new wind farm, but Alyson Linderman, daughte...



  • It's not just the sun's rays beaming down... After losing a brutal election, Sheriff Karen Mehaffey and her uncle, Detective Marek Okerlund, are headed from South Dakota to New Mexico for a long delayed vacation and job hunt. Marek hopes to reunite w...



  • Nature's red in tooth and claw... After an election recount, Karen Mehaffey's triumphant return as the sheriff of Eda County, South Dakota, is marred by the murder of her opponent, Bob "Baby" Bunting. His desecrated body is found in a local park wher...



  • It all comes to a head... In a quiet roadside ditch in Eda County, South Dakota, prairie roses have sprung up along with constructions cones -- and a fractured old skull. Settling into her first year as elected sheriff, Karen Okerlund Mehaffey wants ...



  • His music pulled on their heartstrings...Until someone at the Big Jammer River Music Festival pulled a string tight around Hal Birchard's neck. To Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey and her detective-uncle, Marek Okerlund, the reclusive musician was a h...






  • Summer was for fun...A former star basketball player, Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey just wants to have fun watching the local girls' summer team play against an elite Dakota team that sports the country's top uncommitted college recruit. True, life...



  • Instead of the Corps of Discovery...A corpse is discovered at Spirit Mound, a Lewis and Clark exploration site in South Dakota reputed to harbor evil spirits. Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey, newly married and wanting nothing more than to jet off on ...



  • School is hell...Art teacher Nikki Solberg is having a very bad day. Her job is on the chopping block, her estranged relatives are cheering her downfall, and someone trashed her art room. If that wasn't enough, a contentious school board meeting come...



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    A crazy season...With the holidays just around the corner, the last thing Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey wants under her tree is a murder investigation. So when she and her detective-uncle Marek Okerlund discover two bodies—one freshly dead a...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

M.K. Coker has published 13 books.

M.K. Coker does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Dead Rote, was published in November 2023.

The first book by M.K. Coker, Dead White, was published in April 2011.

Yes. M.K. Coker has 1 series.