Steve Thayer

• Jun-1992
• / Suspense
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The double murder was pretty gruesome, but not unusual for St. Paul wallowing in the Great Depression. Grover Mudd, the city's premier reporter, wanted nothing more than to finger the killers and help put them away forever. But in a district that had...

• Jan-1995
• / Suspense
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It's the dead of winter. A serial killer of pretty young women has frozen a city in fear.... Andrea Lahore is a beautiful, ambitious TV newscaster. She's hungry for a story that could make her career. Now is her chance.... He's called The Weath...

• Aug-1999
• / Suspense
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• Feb-2002
• / Suspense
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"I am an old man in love with a ghost. "...That's the kind of line that can really grab a reader. Steve Thayer uses it at the beginning of The Wheat Field, a novel as haunting as its opening suggests.... The old man in this time-shifting narrative...

• Mar-2003
• / Suspense
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The "quirky and refreshing" (USA Today) hero of The Wheat Field returns to probe the dark corners of small-town America and solve a vicious double homicide.... A railroad engineer is shot at long range by an unseen marksman -- and soon afterward, ...

• Sep-2008
• / Historical
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A veteran of World War I, John Severson becomes a school teacher in a tough, working-class St. Paul neighborhood where a high school diploma is a rarity. Severson has dreams, aspirations. But omething had happened to him during the war, something awf...

• Apr-2015
• / General Fiction
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In Ithaca, New York, in 1929, John Alden tells a gathering of academics that he is a visitor from the twenty first century―that he washed up on their campus after tumbling over a waterfall in the year 2010. He further claims to be a retir...

• / General Fiction
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From rural Minnesota, a father writes letters to his long-estranged daughter, while nine-year-old Angela endures a life of abuse and abandonment amid the violence of urban Los Angeles, in an evocative novel of family sacrifice, separation, regret, an...