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Reunion is one of Carl Brookins's Sean Sean Minneapolis mysteries, with the half-Irish, half-Norwegian PI investigating a missing-persons case that involves a Twin Cities family reunion and a decades-old disappearance that the family has been quietly working to forget.
Brookins writes the Minneapolis-St. Paul geography with the affection of a long-term resident. The Norwegian-American family dynamics are sharply observed. The case resolves with the kind of methodical satisfaction that the form rewards.
Three stars. A pleasant regional mystery. Recommended to readers who like their crime fiction set in cities that are not New York or Los Angeles.
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