It’s dark at 5 p.m. now that we’re done with daylight saving, so it’s a good time to read two novels by Minnesotans that feature ghosts, one who won’t stop talking and one who is fading away. These are so worthy of your TBA pile.

“The Butcher and the Liar”: by S.L. Woeppel (Books Fluent, $21.99)

Marina would often ask me why she had to die. She never expected me to have an answer. She just liked to talk. But I probably should have told her right away, right after it happened. It would have explained why it was me she was forced to stay with — another question she often asked… she still didn’t know I washed her blood from a cooler in the Missouri River. — from “The Butcher and the Liar”

Daisy Belton is 9 when she discovers her father, a butcher and serial killer, cutting up the body of h

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