Strike — L.L. Enger

When gold is discovered near reservation land in Minnesota, former Detroit Tigers outfielder Gunsten Pedersen becomes enmeshed in a stand-off between a mining company and the Ojibwe tribe. Innocent people are murdered, and Gun must navigate the gray zone between white and Native-American worlds. 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 MagazineComeback 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 KeillorSWING:Solidly entertaining.-ALA BooklistIn 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 BerlinSTRIKE:Compelling.-Publishers WeeklySACRIFICE: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 seriesSharp and engaging!-Minneapolis Star TribuneTHE SINNERS' LEAGUE:[A] revelation . . .-Booklist