DEATH OF A DREAM CATCHER

Jamie Forest, entering her second summer in her cabin by Lake Larissa is planning a wedding to the love of her life, Jim Monroe. In a troubling reveal, Jim tells her about his older brother Eli who disappeared twenty years ago. Eli was a high school football standout and a strong swimmer. At his at his graduation party, he went midnight swimming with friends and didn’t come back. His body was never found. Did he drown? Or did he simply walk away from his life and family? With the backdrop of a Minnesota Northwoods threatened by drought and wildfire, Jamie is launched into an investigation to find out what happened to the high school hero.

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"Yard by yard, a mystery in a small town, complete with corruption, rumors, and secrets best left in the past. Against a backdrop of Native American lore, there is romance, an endearing dog, and football as an institution. Norlander scores a touchdown with Death of a Dream Catcher." 

~ Gabriel Valjan, author of the Shane Mystery Cleary Mysteries

"Death of a Dreamcatcher is a brilliant addition to Linda Norlander's Cabin by the Lake mystery series. It weaves together long-buried secrets and present-day mysteries in a layered narrative that builds to a thrilling conclusion. Jamie Forest, the heroine of the story, moved from New York City to northern Minnesota several years before this novel opens, but her ties to the land run far deeper than the usual big city transplant. Her mother was half Ojibwe, and that connection to her ancestry finds expression in an investigation that explores the darker side of the rural county she now calls home. The mysterious death of her fiancé’s brother twenty years earlier comes back to haunt them both when violence again erupts, trapping the innocent and the guilty in the same poisonous snare. In a dry-as-dust summer, the land and the people are equally vulnerable to fire, and the setting provides an apt metaphor for the rising action.

A suspenseful, well-plotted mystery. Highly recommend.

~ Lori Robbins, award winning author of On Pointe Mysteries

“Haunting, mystifying, and troubling…when secrets from 20 years ago collide with long-buried memories, the explosion reverberates through a small and tightly knit Minnesota town. Both spellbinding and riveting, Death of a Dream Catcher is the sort of book you’ll wish you could finish in one sitting. It’s that good. This is Linda Norlander at the top of her writing game. ”

~ Reed Bunzel, author of Beyond all Doubt and The Fall of Vivaldi