Turtle Mountain Mystery

About the Book

Lorinda Kemp, a businesswoman from the big city, comes home to her parents’ western South Dakota prairie ranch, to do cattle chores, while her father goes hunting. She needs this time to spend with her elderly mother on the quiet peaceful ranch, where her childhood friends and neighbors welcome her home with open arms. A strong-willed, tough woman, at forty-seven, divorced for many years and raising a child alone, she figures she has seen it all. This week will change her mind. She ends up being held hostage in her parents’ barn by a terrified young man. Then the new rancher she’s fighting hard not to love turns out to be someone more than a rancher. The shocking conclusion of her now-ruined vacation is to find that some of her beloved friends are hiding a secret; they will kill to keep it hidden.

About the Author

I am sixty-nine now, so for fifty-seven years, I have been writing short stories, poems, Christmas letters, which have turned into about a hundred people who seem to like my goofy letters. I live on a farm in eastern South Dakota with my husband. We have a hog farrowing operation. We have mama hogs who have their babies in an open barn where they can raise their children as they see fit. We are very pleased with the sale of the happy pigs we turn out. I worked for fifty-two years, retiring two years ago. Now I have time to write. I am doing my other books on the computer. I, so far, do not like the computer word processing like I liked my old word processer. Most people don’t know what an old word processer does. It makes sounds if you make a mistake, so you can just type away. I realize the computer is much better and will—I swear—catch on. I spent the first years of my life on a large cattle ranch in western South Dakota. I married and moved to the east. I worked in retail until I was thirty. I then entered the nursing home world where I spent the next thirty-seven years either as a supervisor or a peon. I loved working with old people.