M.K. Coker

A Dakota Mystery

1 - Dead White (Apr-2011)
2 - Dead Dreams (Jan-2013)
3 - Dead Wrong (Mar-2014)
4 - Dead Quiet (Mar-2015)
5 - Dead News (Apr-2016)
6 - Dead Hot (May-2017)
7 - Dead Poor (May-2018)
8 - Dead Head (Apr-2019)
9 - Dead Tunes (Apr-2020)

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  Dead Time
  

  • Jun-2025
  • / Police Procedural

  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...

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  Dead Erratics
  

  • Nov-2024
  • / Police Procedural

  A crazy season...With the holidays just around the corner, the last thing Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey wants under her tree is a murder investigation. So when she and her detective-uncle Marek Okerlund discover two bodies—one freshly dead a...

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  Dead Rote
  

  • Nov-2023
  • / Police Procedural

  School is hell...Art teacher Nikki Solberg is having a very bad day. Her job is on the chopping block, her estranged relatives are cheering her downfall, and someone trashed her art room. If that wasn't enough, a contentious school board meeting come...

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  Dead Spirits
  

  • Nov-2022
  • / Police Procedural

  Instead of the Corps of Discovery...A corpse is discovered at Spirit Mound, a Lewis and Clark exploration site in South Dakota reputed to harbor evil spirits. Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey, newly married and wanting nothing more than to jet off on ...

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  Dead Ball
  

  • Oct-2021
  • / Police Procedural

  Summer was for fun...A former star basketball player, Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey just wants to have fun watching the local girls' summer team play against an elite Dakota team that sports the country's top uncommitted college recruit. True, life...

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  Dead Tunes
  

  • Apr-2020
  • / Police Procedural

  A Dakota Mystery - 9
  

  His music pulled on their heartstrings...Until someone at the Big Jammer River Music Festival pulled a string tight around Hal Birchard's neck. To Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey and her detective-uncle, Marek Okerlund, the reclusive musician was a h...

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  Dead Head
  

  • Apr-2019
  • / Law Enforcement

  A Dakota Mystery - 8
  

  It all comes to a head... In a quiet roadside ditch in Eda County, South Dakota, prairie roses have sprung up along with constructions cones -- and a fractured old skull. Settling into her first year as elected sheriff, Karen Okerlund Mehaffey wants ...

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  Dead Poor
  

  • May-2018
  • / Police Procedural

  A Dakota Mystery - 7
  

  Nature's red in tooth and claw... After an election recount, Karen Mehaffey's triumphant return as the sheriff of Eda County, South Dakota, is marred by the murder of her opponent, Bob "Baby" Bunting. His desecrated body is found in a local park wher...

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  Dead Hot
  

  • May-2017
  • / Police Procedural

  A Dakota Mystery - 6
  

  It's not just the sun's rays beaming down... After losing a brutal election, Sheriff Karen Mehaffey and her uncle, Detective Marek Okerlund, are headed from South Dakota to New Mexico for a long delayed vacation and job hunt. Marek hopes to reunite w...

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  Dead News
  

  • Apr-2016
  • / Police Procedural

  A Dakota Mystery - 5
  

  If it bleeds, it leads. Poised to win her first contested election in Eda County, South Dakota, Sheriff Karen Mehaffey is broadsided by bad news. Not only does a hooligan deface a turbine in the county’s new wind farm, but Alyson Linderman, daughte...

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  Dead Quiet
  

  • Mar-2015
  • / Mystery

  A Dakota Mystery - 4
  

  The ties that bind -- can kill. All’s quiet in Reunion, South Dakota, until word comes via horse and buggy: a killer is loose in the peaceful German Anabaptist community of Eder. Outsiders call them the Mock Brethren, who only wish to be left alone...

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  Dead Wrong
  

  • Mar-2014
  • / Police Procedural

  A Dakota Mystery - 3
  

  The trucker who’d hit a Wrong Way sign lay hunched over the wheels of his semi -- with his brains blown to bits, a revolver in his hand. Leo Jurczewsky had long talked of killing himself. So when Sheriff Karen Mehaffey and Detective Marek Okerlund ...

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  Dead Dreams
  

  • Jan-2013
  • / Police Procedural

  A Dakota Mystery - 2
  

  Dreams can inspire, crush -- and even kill. For Karen Mehaffey, going for the stars -- the sheriff’s stars -- wasn’t turning out to be a dream come true. Flood waters are rising along with the thermometer, and the last thing she needs is a homici...

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  Dead White
  

  • Apr-2011
  • / General Fiction

  A Dakota Mystery - 1
  

  This isn't your mother's Little House on the Prairie... Detective Marek Okerlund unknowingly passes by a dying man in a Dakota blizzard-and gets what he changed jobs to avoid: a homicide. Acting Sheriff Karen Mehaffey asks for a part-time detective t...

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