"Leif's Legacy" with author Newell Searle

Newsman Boston Meade interviews ex-forest ranger Leif Nielsen who wants his farmstead on Tarn Lake to remain in its natural state. His brother, Harald, a doctor, and his political wife, Regina, tell Boston the farm has great development potential. They draft a will for Leif's signature while he is hospitalized, but Leif discovers the draft gives Harald power of attorney. His sanity is questioned, and blood will ensue!

Newell Searle grew up on a southern Minnesota farm, and his writing includes a variety of pieces on Minnesota's history, culture and natural environment. Copy Desk Murders was his first novel in a mystery series set in southern Minnesota during the 1980s farm crisis, a period when he worked in agricultural organizations. After a vocational school education, he received a B.A. from Macalester College. His first book, Saving Quetico-Superior, was an award-winning narrative of wilderness protection. He continued writing while working as a public affairs professional in corporate, government and nonprofit organizations. Now he writes wherever he is, at his home in Minnetonka, volunteering in Mexico or at a forest cabin north of Lake Superior.