Dean L HoveyDean Hovey is a Minnesota-based author with three mystery series. He lives with his wife south of Duluth.Dean's award-winning* Pine County series follows sheriff's deputies Floyd Swenson and Pam Ryan through this police procedural series.Dean's Whisting Pines books are humorous cozy mysteries centered on the residents of the Whistling Pines senior residence. The protagonist is Peter Rogers, the Whistling Pines recreation director.In Dean's latest series his protagonist, a retired Minnesota policeman, is drafted into service as a National Park Service Investigator after a murder at a National Monument. The Doug Fletcher Mysteries* "Family Trees: A Pine County Mystery" won the 2018 NEMBA award for best fiction. Read More Read Less