Dead Tunes: A Dakota Mystery

His music pulled on their heartstrings...

Until someone at the Big Jammer River Music Festival pulled a string tight around Hal Birchard's neck. To Sheriff Karen Okerlund Mehaffey and her detective-uncle, Marek Okerlund, the reclusive musician was a head-scratching mystery—his origins as murky as those of the strange fiddle he'd played that had even staid Dakotans tapping their feet.

Karen is doing a tap dance of her own, trying to get her young sister-in-law emancipated as a minor without t...