Hard Curves — Lin Enger

When former Detroit Tiger legend Gunsten Pedersen witnesses the murder of a minor-league star in Duluth, Minnesota, he is drawn into a blackmail scheme involving an aging baseball groupie and the corrupt owner of a big-league franchise. Fans of Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Craig Johnson's Longmire, and William Kent Krueger's Cork O'Connor enjoy the Enger brothers' Gun Pedersen. ***PRAISE FOR THE GUN PEDERSEN SERIES*** COMEBACK: A well-written, fast-reading thriller. . . . It's got everything.-Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine Comeback is so good, you want to sit down and read it all at once. It's got love and shame and money and the Minnesota woods and lakes, and dark mystery, and a reluctant hero, and it's written with humor and passion.-Garrison Keillor SWING: Solidly entertaining.-ALA Booklist In Swing, the plot twists as unpredictably as a hangman's rope. Swing has muscle (and heart, too).-Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine [A] sure hit.-R.D. Zimmerman, author of Deadfall in Berlin STRIKE: Compelling.-Publishers Weekly SACRIFICE: Sacrifice is the best novel I've read this year. Not just the best mystery, but the best novel, period.-Jeremiah Healy, author of the John Francis Cuddy series Sharp and engaging!-Minneapolis Star Tribune THE SINNERS' LEAGUE: [A] revelation . . .-Booklist