Minnesota Mystery Night

Dean Hovey is the author of 43 mysteries in three series. His Doug Fletcher series (19 books) follows Investigator Fletcher as he investigates suspicious deaths in US National Park Service properties from Everglades National Park to Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii. Readers often comment on the relatable characters they'd like to invite over for a beer and conversation. His Pine County series (13 books) is set in rural central Minnesota and focuses on the challenges of policing a sprawling county with more swamps than residents. The Whistling Pines series (10 books) are cozies set in a senior citizens residence where the recreation director is the protagonist, and the interactions of the senior citizens are humorous and often key to solving the murders. His most recent Pine County mysteries have been co-written with D.L. Dixen and "Whistling Librarian" was co-written with Anne Flagge. 

Dean has a ghostwritten mystery "Bad Omens; Nunavut" which is set in the Canadian Arctic based on characters created by John Wisdomkeeper. 

He has three books on the BWL Publishing 2027 schedule including "Blown Away" a Fletcher mystery, "Whistling Runes" a Whistling Pines mystery, and "The Book of Dreams" a paranormal book featuring the Nunavut characters.

Dean and his wife split their year between Northern Minnesota and Arizona.

In addition to writing a corporate thriller series, Brian Lutterman is the mastermind and one of the authors of The Kill Code Collective, a unique collaboration of five authors who wrote the highly acclaimed medical thriller. His most recent individual work is Incel, a ground-breaking, stand-alone psychological thriller set in Minnesota. He is currently working on the seventh book of his corporate thriller series featuring Pen Wilkinson, a sassy, whip-smart, paraplegic attorney, described by the St. Paul Pioneer Press as “. . . one of the most intriguing new characters on the Minnesota crime scene.”

In addition to six books in the Wilkinson series, Lutterman is the author of Bound to Die, a Minnesota Book Award runner-up.

Lutterman, a former trial and corporate attorney, lives with his wife in suburban Saint Paul, Minnesota.