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Dakota Mystery #14
Dead Time
It's dead time...
With everything terminally frozen in the Dakotas, Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey gets called out on a subzero Saturday morning to the local funeral home to investigate the death of a financial consultant who lived by the mantra "time is money."
Just getting to town is a challenge for a sleep-deprived Karen, made more difficult by an unexpected stowaway. But at least she and her detective-uncle Marek Okerlund dodge hosting a distant Swedish cousin who crashes their still-healing family—a member of which is suddenly threatened with a very short time on earth.
As suspects look to bolt back to their far-flung homes, Karen and Marek try to balance the job and their personal lives, with a renewed sense of the precious and fleeting nature of time, while the clock ticks down on nabbing a killer.
DEAD TIME is a character-driven police procedural. Fourteenth in series. Word 77,000. Occasional profanity. Minimal gore.
With everything terminally frozen in the Dakotas, Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey gets called out on a subzero Saturday morning to the local funeral home to investigate the death of a financial consultant who lived by the mantra "time is money."
Just getting to town is a challenge for a sleep-deprived Karen, made more difficult by an unexpected stowaway. But at least she and her detective-uncle Marek Okerlund dodge hosting a distant Swedish cousin who crashes their still-healing family—a member of which is suddenly threatened with a very short time on earth.
As suspects look to bolt back to their far-flung homes, Karen and Marek try to balance the job and their personal lives, with a renewed sense of the precious and fleeting nature of time, while the clock ticks down on nabbing a killer.
DEAD TIME is a character-driven police procedural. Fourteenth in series. Word 77,000. Occasional profanity. Minimal gore.
275 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 14, 2025
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M.K. Coker
14 books31 followersM.K. Coker grew up on a river bluff in southeastern South Dakota. Part of the Dakota diaspora, the author has lived in half a dozen states, including New Mexico, but returns to the prairie at every opportunity.
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November 15, 2025
Mi sono finalmente messa in pari con questa serie e ora spero che continuino a pubblicare libri perché mi fa sempre piacere leggere storie con le indagini (e la vita personale) di Karen e Marek. In questa storia si indaga la morte di un personaggio veramente odioso: per fortuna, il colpevole alla fine si mostra essere altrettanto detestabile. Mi ha fatto piacere che un indizio fondamentale sia risultato essere... un gatto! Che ha quasi rischiato la vita, poverino, ma che ha poi trovato finalmente qualcuno che lo amerà davvero.
June 27, 2025
Family troubles
An interesting read. It has a lot of background on its characters,some old, some new. The sheriff has her hands full when a funeral turns to murder.
An interesting read. It has a lot of background on its characters,some old, some new. The sheriff has her hands full when a funeral turns to murder.
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