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Linda Wirtanen Fitzgerald grew up in Garrison Keillor country, primarily Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. After graduating from N. Michigan University, she headed to Ann Arbor and a graduate fellowship at the University of Michigan. With master’s degree and a national recession, she tried her hand at magazine editing, newspaper reporting, even script writing for sales seminars—and consoled herself by devouring mystery novels. Ultimately, she found her home as senior copywriter in an Ann Arbor ad agency and, from there, went on to launch Fitzgerald Communications. Twenty-some years and thousands of projects later, one career goal still eluded her: she had never written a mystery novel. In the summer of 2016, she crossed that item off her list with the publication of Death at the Doorstep, the debut adventure of Ann Arbor freelance writer and amateur sleuth Karin Niemi. She recently completed the second novel in the series, A Superior Way to Die, which is set in the Upper Peninsula.