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Jack Fredrickson
Born: in Chicago, IL
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Fredrickson is a native Chicagoan. Biography: Jack Fredrickson's first Dek Elstrom mystery, ''A Safe Place for Dying'', was nominated for the Shamus Award for Best First Novel, and his second, ''Honestly Dearest, You're Dead'', was a March 2009 Pearl Pick. His short fiction has appeared in the acclaimed ''Chicago Blues'' and in Michael Connelly’s ''Burden of the Badge'' anthologies.
Awards:
- """A Safe Place for Dying"""
- -- Finalist, Shamus Award for Best First Novel, 2007 """Hunting Sweetie Rose"""
- -- Finalist, Shamus Award for Best Novel, 2013
Selected Titles
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A safe place for dying / ISBN: 0312351682 OCLC: 69680151 An extortion letter arrives at Crystal Waters, one of Chicago's wealthiest gated communities. It makes no specific threats, gives no instructions, demands only that $50,000 be gotten ready--chump change for an enclave where the cheapest house is worth three million. It's easy to see it as harmless--a note from a nut. Then a mansion explodes. The homeowners panic, and want it hushed up. If word gets out that a bomber is targeting Crystal Waters, their multimillion-dollar homes will become worthless, a last catastrophe for people strung out from living the good life too well. They hire Dek Elstrom to investigate. |
| A Safe Place For Dying. ISBN: 9780373269358 OCLC: 1001979588 St. Martin's Press, New York : 2006. |
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| Honestly dearest, you're dead ISBN: 9780373269020 OCLC: 884507365 Worldwide, Toronto : 2014. Delighted when an attorney offers him four hundred dollars to execute the will of a dead client, a broke Dek Elstrom finds his seemingly simple case complicated by a race against time with a killer. |
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Honestly dearest, you're dead / ISBN: 0312380925 OCLC: 233813784 Minotaur Books, New York : 2009, ©2008. Delighted when an attorney offers him four hundred dollars to execute the will of a dead client, a broke Dek Elstrom finds his seemingly simple case complicated by a race against time with a killer. |
| Hunting Sweetie Rose ISBN: 9780373268917 OCLC: 879298322 Worldwide, New York : 2014. Sweetie Fairbairn, the doyenne of Chicago society, is known for big-hearted philanthropy and magnificent soirees in her penthouse high atop one of the city's premier boutique hotels. Dek Elstrom is hired by a mysterious man in a long limousine to investigate the death of a clown. Was it suicide--or murder? What is the connection between the dead clown and Sweetie?--Provided by publisher. |
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| Hunting Sweetie Rose / ISBN: 0312605269 OCLC: 740627589 Minotaur Books, New York : 2012. "Sweetie Fairbairn, the doyenne of Chicago society, is known for big-hearted philanthropy and magnificent soirees in her penthouse high atop one of the city's premier boutique hotels. Dek Elstrom is hired by a mysterious man in a long limousine to investigate the death of a clown. Was it suicide--or murder? What is the connection between the dead clown and Sweetie?"--Provided by publisher. |