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My father was a newspaper editor in rural Minnesota. To this day I can smell the ink and hear the rhythm of the press as it printed out the Wheaton Gazette. While my father ran the paper, my mother wrote a weekly column called “Over a Cup of Coffee.” My first major attempt to write a novel began at age ten. I’d just finished a book that was the autobiography of a doll. I decided to write the autobiography of a puppy. To this day I remember the opening line: “I take pen in paw (with a little difficulty) to write my memoirs.” The rest is lost to history. While I always wanted to write a novel, life took its own turn. After graduating from high school in Caracas Venezuela (a story for another time) I met Jerome, my brother’s college roommate. He was tall and gangly and wore wire rimmed glasses. It was the summer of love and I eventually became a teenaged bride. We recently celebrated our fifty-first anniversary. Through the years, he’s been an insightful editor and supporter. Plus, as a technical editor and writer, he knows where the commas go. I went into nursing hoping to be of service to mankind. I found my passion working in hospice. For nearly thirty years I worked to promote improvements in end-of-life care. I used my ability to put a sentence together to write several books on end-of-life care including the award winning “To Comfort Always: A Nurse’s Guide to End of Life Care.” Even with two children and fulltime work, I claimed time to write fiction, humor, short stories and yes, a novel or two. When we lived on ten acres of woods in central Minnesota, I wrote a series of short humor piece published in the Minneapolis StarTribune Sunday Magazine. The one entitled “Funeral Jell-O” won an award for humor writing. I have a certificate (somewhere) to prove it. I remember my daughter at age twelve coming home from school and glaring at me as I sat at my first computer (an Epson QX-10). “Mom are you writing again? Can’t you do something else?” Well, the children are grown and have children of their own. We have moved from windchill of Minnesota winters to the rain of Tacoma, Washington winters. The Epson is gone along with several other computers. I have retired from writing about end-of-life care and moved on to writing about murder (there’s got to be a connection somewhere.) “Death of an Editor” takes place in the summer, “Death of a Starling” in the fall, “Death of a Snow Ghost” in the winter and “Death of a Fox” in the spring. Each book will give you a sense of the beauty and mystique of Northern Minnesota along with the realities of life in an isolated rural place. “Death of Goldie’s Mistress” is the first book in a new series featuring Liza Johnson, a schoolteacher and her upstairs 80-something neighbor Mrs. Wilkens. More to come… As my mother wrote, “If you are sitting around with nothing to view—read on!” https://www.lindanorlander.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/623f65ad9e45ef6f3357a240/3c82316d-de93-42ba-8be8-d77a18a42f95/image-6+copy.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/623f65ad9e45ef6f3357a240/1772734767138-KTIZKSOYE2CIMSJLZ9TI/Only+the+river+knows.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/623f65ad9e45ef6f3357a240/1772734767138-KTIZKSOYE2CIMSJLZ9TI/Only+the+river+knows.jpg Home - Only The River Knows A murder in the wings. A cold case resurrected. And a killer ready for an encore. The curtain rises on Lykkins Lake’s community theater production of The Music Man—but the show turns deadly before the first line is spoken. During auditions, director Amanda Brodie spots someone on stage and bolts in fear. The next morning, her body surfaces in the dark waters beneath an abandoned railroad bridge. Sheriff Red Hammergren’s investigation quickly leads to a chilling discovery: decades ago, Amanda’s sister was murdered in an unsolved case that shook the town. Now, Red suspects the two crimes are connected—and someone in the tight-knit theater troupe knows more than they’re letting on. As the spotlight swings from center stage to long-buried secrets, Red races to uncover the truth. 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After the death of her father, a divorce and a traumatic experience with the New York police, Jamie settles into the old family cabin to eke out a living as a freelance editor. As a member of a local environmental group, she clashes with the editor of the county newspaper over the development of a copper and nickel mining operation. Her peace is shattered when the editor is murdered, and her business card is found with the body. Ask for Death of an Editor at your local bookstore or support local by buying online through bookshop.org. Also available in print and digitally through Amazon.com. https://www.lindanorlander.com/home/death-of-a-starling monthly 0.5 2023-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/623f65ad9e45ef6f3357a240/1648345878394-VTV585308L8M8OQQG3UI/Death_of_a_Starling_Cover_Final.jpg Home - Death of a Starling - Death of a Starling Jamie Forest is a freelance editor eking out a living in northern Minnesota. Her plans for a tranquil fall in her cabin by the lake are shattered when she us drawn into writing an article about a school shooting in a nearby town where all the victims were Native American. Is this a hate crime? As she pursues the story, she finds a town wrapped in silence. When the one person who will talk with her is found dead, Jamie is launched into an investigation to uncover the secrets of this dying town. Ask for Death of a Starling at your local bookstore or support local by buying online through bookshop.org. Also available in print and digitally through Amazon.com. https://www.lindanorlander.com/home/death-of-a-snow-ghost monthly 0.5 2023-04-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/623f65ad9e45ef6f3357a240/1c9d59a1-e6a0-42ef-b3cb-a19c0ddf8121/DEATH+OF+A+SNOW+GHOST+cover+.jpg Home - Death of a Snow Ghost - Death of a Snow Ghost Jamie Forest ex-New Yorker is on her way to her cabin to prepare for her first Thanksgiving in the Northwoods of Minnesota when she see through a whirl of snow a ghostly apparition. It’s not a ghost but a young woman in labor. With the snow falling, Jamie becomes an accidental midwife, delivering a healthy baby girl. In the aftermath it’s clear the new mother is afraid someone will take her baby. Three days later a young woman is found drowned in Black Crow Pond. Is she Jamie’s new mother? As she seeks answers, Jamie learns that winter in the Northwoods can be both beautiful and deadly. Ask for Death of a Snow Ghost at your local bookstore or support local by buying online through bookshop.org. Also available in print and digitally through Amazon.com. https://www.lindanorlander.com/home/death-of-a-fox monthly 0.5 2024-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/623f65ad9e45ef6f3357a240/65ab318d-3ad9-41a3-8f72-64bcda7e94e0/Death+of+a+Fox+Cover.jpg Home - Death of a Fox - Death of a Fox Jamie Forest, transplanted New Yorker is enjoying her first spring in the Northwoods of Minnesota when her friend Clarence introduces her to an elderly recluse, Nella Fox. Nella wants help writing her memoirs. She is the owner of an estate that was once a TB sanatorium. The hospital is long abandoned and crumbling. Rumors abound that the neglected building carries the secret of a long-ago murder. When one of the cousins who cares for Nella is found dead in the old hospital, Jamie is drawn into its dark history. Instead of enjoying the spring awakening, Jamie finds herself piecing together the story of the estate and trying to solve two mysteries—one in the past and one in the present. Death of a Fox is a haunting tale of deeply buried ancient family secrets mingled with a few mysteries of a more modern vintage. Linda Norlander has created a smart heroine, a lush setting, and an abundance of strange goings-on to make this a page-turner I couldn’t put down. I absolutely loved it! ~Annette Dashofy, USA Today Bestselling Author of the Zoe Chambers Mystery Series Ask for Death of a Fox at your local bookstore or support local by buying online through bookshop.org. Also available in print and digitally through Amazon.com.