The Lady's Slipper: Murder in Harbor Springs

Thorne Swift is the biggest piece of undeveloped lakefront real estate in Harbor Springs-seventeen acres of pristine woods, ponds, creeks, and swamps with over a thousand feet of shoreline on Lake Michigan. It's a nature preserve, but a real estate developer wants to turn it into million-dollar homes.

It's also home to the lady's slipper, a beautiful pink and white orchid shaped like a moccasin at the heart of an Ojibwe legend.

Burr Lafayette, recently divorced, i...