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    The Confessors' Club
    Tagged for Murder
    Hidden Graves
    Ebook series3 titles

    The Dek Elstrom Mysteries Series

    By Jack Fredrickson

    3/5

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    About this series

    The “well-crafted seventh mystery featuring wily, wise-cracking Chicago PI Dek Elstrom . . .  [a] delightfully eccentric detective series” (Publishers Weekly).
     
    When the man who’s hired Dek Elstrom disappears, the private investigator’s search for his missing client unearths some shocking findings.

    The dead man is found spread-eagled on the top of a box car on an abandoned rail siding. He’s dressed in a $2000 suit, yet half his teeth are rotten and his skin is bad. Who was he . . . and how did he end up there?

    When he’s offered an exorbitant fee to photograph the scene, PI Dek Elstrom doesn’t ask many questions. But his photos reveal something surprising: there’s a witness to the murder, a tagger who’s returned to the scene to paint what he saw. His work quickly disappears. What is it that the mysterious graffiti artist wants the world to know?  

    Then a second body shows up—and the case takes a shocking new twist . . .
     
    “There’s a good story here, and perhaps readers as easy going as Dek won’t mind the laid-back pace.”—Booklist 
     
    Praise for the Dek Elstrom mystery series
     
    “An investigator with a seductive one-two punch—a delectably smart mouth and a delightfully nimble brain.”—William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author
     
    “Elstrom has lost none of his initial appeal.”—The New York Times
     
    “With a gripping plot and a quirky but determined hero, The Confessors’ Club represents another fine effort from an author who excels at every requirement of the genre—and then some.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateAug 1, 1995
    The Confessors' Club
    Tagged for Murder
    Hidden Graves

    Titles in the series (3)

    • Hidden Graves
      Hidden Graves

      Hidden Graves

      Jack Fredrickson
      4/5 - 1 rating
      4/5 - 1 rating

      “An investigator with a seductive one-two punch—a delectably smart mouth and a delightfully nimble brain.” —William Kent Krueger   “Chicago private investigator Dek Elstrom is having a hard time making ends meet, what with the recent collapse of his marriage, the scandal that wrecked his career, and the lack of an actual private investigator’s license. When a woman hires Dek to confirm the whereabouts of three men, Dek’s not exactly in a position to turn down the work, despite his client’s deeply suspicious behavior (Why, for example, does she show up for their meeting wearing an obvious disguise?). When Dek discovers that one of the men is dead and the other two seem to have gone missing, not to mention the fact that the dead man may have taken on a new identity a couple of decades ago, he realizes he’s stumbled onto the kind of case that could resurrect his career―if he can beat a (trumped-up) murder charge, that is. The writing here is splendid, echoing genre veteran Loren D. Estleman, and Dek Elstrom is the kind of guy we genuinely like spending time with.” —Booklist 

      “An investigator with a seductive one-two punch—a delectably smart mouth and a delightfully nimble brain.” —William Kent Krueger   “Chicago private investigator Dek Elstrom is having a hard time making ends meet, what with the recent collapse of his marriage, the scandal that wrecked his career, and the lack of an actual private investigator’s license. When a woman hires Dek to confirm the whereabouts of three men, Dek’s not exactly in a position to turn down the work, despite his client’s deeply suspicious behavior (Why, for example, does she show up for their meeting wearing an obvious disguise?). When Dek discovers that one of the men is dead and the other two seem to have gone missing, not to mention the fact that the dead man may have taken on a new identity a couple of decades ago, he realizes he’s stumbled onto the kind of case that could resurrect his career―if he can beat a (trumped-up) murder charge, that is. The writing here is splendid, echoing genre veteran Loren D. Estleman, and Dek Elstrom is the kind of guy we genuinely like spending time with.” —Booklist 

    • The Confessors' Club
      The Confessors' Club

      The Confessors' Club

      Jack Fredrickson
      4/5 - 4 ratings
      4/5 - 4 ratings

      Rich and powerful men are being targeted by a killer in this mystery with “a gripping plot” (Richmond Times-Dispatch).   Men are dying in Chicago. Not ordinary men, but rich men, powerful men, men who control the city. They are being murdered, quietly, skillfully. And Dek Elstrom’s former father-in-law, a major player in everything Chicago, seems likely to become one of them.   Amanda, Dek’s ex-wife, pleads with him to investigate. He doesn’t want this case, but he finally gives in—because that’s what he always does with Amanda. Then he discovers that Amanda’s father is lying. Now Dek just has to figure out exactly what he’s lying about, and why . . .   “Dek Elstrom is the kind of guy we genuinely like spending time with.” —Booklist   “An investigator with a seductive one-two punch—a delectably smart mouth and a delightfully nimble brain.” —William Kent Krueger   “With a gripping plot and a quirky but determined hero, The Confessors’ Club represents another fine effort from an author who excels at every requirement of the genre—and then some.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch

      Rich and powerful men are being targeted by a killer in this mystery with “a gripping plot” (Richmond Times-Dispatch).   Men are dying in Chicago. Not ordinary men, but rich men, powerful men, men who control the city. They are being murdered, quietly, skillfully. And Dek Elstrom’s former father-in-law, a major player in everything Chicago, seems likely to become one of them.   Amanda, Dek’s ex-wife, pleads with him to investigate. He doesn’t want this case, but he finally gives in—because that’s what he always does with Amanda. Then he discovers that Amanda’s father is lying. Now Dek just has to figure out exactly what he’s lying about, and why . . .   “Dek Elstrom is the kind of guy we genuinely like spending time with.” —Booklist   “An investigator with a seductive one-two punch—a delectably smart mouth and a delightfully nimble brain.” —William Kent Krueger   “With a gripping plot and a quirky but determined hero, The Confessors’ Club represents another fine effort from an author who excels at every requirement of the genre—and then some.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch

    • Tagged for Murder
      Tagged for Murder

      Tagged for Murder

      Jack Fredrickson
      0 ratings
      0 ratings

      The “well-crafted seventh mystery featuring wily, wise-cracking Chicago PI Dek Elstrom . . .  [a] delightfully eccentric detective series” (Publishers Weekly).   When the man who’s hired Dek Elstrom disappears, the private investigator’s search for his missing client unearths some shocking findings. The dead man is found spread-eagled on the top of a box car on an abandoned rail siding. He’s dressed in a $2000 suit, yet half his teeth are rotten and his skin is bad. Who was he . . . and how did he end up there? When he’s offered an exorbitant fee to photograph the scene, PI Dek Elstrom doesn’t ask many questions. But his photos reveal something surprising: there’s a witness to the murder, a tagger who’s returned to the scene to paint what he saw. His work quickly disappears. What is it that the mysterious graffiti artist wants the world to know?   Then a second body shows up—and the case takes a shocking new twist . . .   “There’s a good story here, and perhaps readers as easy going as Dek won’t mind the laid-back pace.”—Booklist    Praise for the Dek Elstrom mystery series   “An investigator with a seductive one-two punch—a delectably smart mouth and a delightfully nimble brain.”—William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author   “Elstrom has lost none of his initial appeal.”—The New York Times   “With a gripping plot and a quirky but determined hero, The Confessors’ Club represents another fine effort from an author who excels at every requirement of the genre—and then some.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

      The “well-crafted seventh mystery featuring wily, wise-cracking Chicago PI Dek Elstrom . . .  [a] delightfully eccentric detective series” (Publishers Weekly).   When the man who’s hired Dek Elstrom disappears, the private investigator’s search for his missing client unearths some shocking findings. The dead man is found spread-eagled on the top of a box car on an abandoned rail siding. He’s dressed in a $2000 suit, yet half his teeth are rotten and his skin is bad. Who was he . . . and how did he end up there? When he’s offered an exorbitant fee to photograph the scene, PI Dek Elstrom doesn’t ask many questions. But his photos reveal something surprising: there’s a witness to the murder, a tagger who’s returned to the scene to paint what he saw. His work quickly disappears. What is it that the mysterious graffiti artist wants the world to know?   Then a second body shows up—and the case takes a shocking new twist . . .   “There’s a good story here, and perhaps readers as easy going as Dek won’t mind the laid-back pace.”—Booklist    Praise for the Dek Elstrom mystery series   “An investigator with a seductive one-two punch—a delectably smart mouth and a delightfully nimble brain.”—William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author   “Elstrom has lost none of his initial appeal.”—The New York Times   “With a gripping plot and a quirky but determined hero, The Confessors’ Club represents another fine effort from an author who excels at every requirement of the genre—and then some.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch

    Author

    Jack Fredrickson

    Jack Fredrickson lives with his wife, Susan, west of Chicago. He is the author of seven Dek Elstrom PI mysteries, the first of which, A Safe Place for Dying, was nominated for the Shamus Award for Best First Novel, and one standalone, Silence the Dead.

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