When FBI agent Mary Cantrell is assigned to return to her hometown of Minneapolis to investigate a series of murders, she does so reluctantly, knowing that the man convicted of her best friend's murder has been set free.

RayAnne Dahl goes fishing for a different life, catching much more than she'd bargained for. Having fled the testosterone-soaked world of pro fishing to finally settle in her Minneapolis fixer-upper, thirty-something RayAnne unexpectedly lands at the helm of the first all-women fishing and talk show. Between her dad's falling off the wagon, unwanted advice from Mom-a life coach to the menopausal rich-and her clingy dog, she needs the advice of her...

When her defense attorney father's client kills himself in his cell, the man's own father blames the lawyer for his son's death and plans to seek revenge by targeting the client's father's children, including lesbian sleuth Jane Lawless.

It's a bitter winter in Minnesota--too cold to kill. There hasn't been a murder for a month, but the lull quickly comes to an end for Detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth, when they're called to the gruesome homicide of Kelly Ramage. Found in a friend's vacant house, this was no random attack, and clues reveal that she was living a very dangerous secret life. Magozzi and Gino trace her steps back to an art gallery where she was last seen alive....

Taking a seemingly easy job in her first case as a fledgling private investigator, Jane Lawless attempts to track down the missing father of client Annie Andrews, a successful effort with unanticipated consequences.

Shay O'Hanlon is co-owner of The Rabbit Hole, a quirky-cool Minneapolis coffee shop. Her lifelong friend Coop becomes a murder suspect in the murder of Kinky, Coop's former boss and the unsavory owner of The Bingo Barge, a sleazy gambling boat on the Mississippi. While unearthing clues to absolve Coop, Shay encounters Mafia goons hunting for some extremely valuable nuts