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Join us on Thursday, February 16 at 7PM for an in-person author event at the bookstore!  Allen Eskens will be here with his new book "Forsaken Country", the fifth novel featuring detective Max Rupert.  Allen is the acclaimed author of these books featuring Max Rupert:  "The Life We Bury", "The Guise of Another", and "The Heavens May Fall", "Deep Dark Descending", and "The Shadows We Hide".  He is also the author of "The Stolen Hours", which is now in paperback

Allen is the recipient of the Barry Award, Minnesota Book Award, Rosebud Award (Left Coast Crime), and Silver Falchion Award and has been a finalist for the Edgar® Award, Thriller Award, and Anthony Award. 

Here's a synopsis of "Forsaken Country":

Max Rupert has left his position as a Minneapolis homicide detective to live in solitude. Mourning the tragic death of his wife, he’s also racked by guilt—he alone knows what happened to her killer. But then the former local sheriff, Lyle Voight, arrives with a desperate plea: Lyle’s daughter Sandy and his six-year-old grandson Pip have disappeared. Lyle’s certain Sandy’s ex-husband Reed is behind it, but the new sheriff is refusing to investigate.

When Max reluctantly looks into their disappearance, he too becomes convinced something has gone very wrong. But the closer Max and Lyle get to finding proof, the more slippery Reed becomes, until he makes a break for the beautiful but formidable Boundary Waters wilderness with vulnerable Pip in tow.

Racing after the most dangerous kind of criminal—a desperate father—and with the ghosts of their own pasts never far behind, Max and Lyle go on the hunt within a treacherous landscape, determined to bring an evil man to justice, and to bring a terrified child home alive.

This is a free event, but registration is required to help us plan seating.  Register here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/allen-eskens-is-in-store-on-thursday-february-16-tickets-499786664367