Name: In the Dead of Winter with Lyn Farrell
Start: 2026-03-26T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Schuler Books (Okemos)

Calling all mystery lovers! We are thrilled to have author Lyn Farrell join us in our Okemos event studio to talk about her newest mystery, In the Dead of Winter.
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About the Book:
Victoria Treadwell, dispatcher for the sheriff's office, is driving to work in a snowstorm when she sees a car fish-tailing behind her. Horrified, she watches as the car swerves off the road. When she heads back to help, she finds the driver bent over the steering wheel and barely breathing. In the back seat is a tiny child in a pink snowsuit. Victoria calls for an ambulance and then dials her boss, Pete Manstead, Undersheriff, of Charlevoix County. The ambulance arrives and the paramedic tries to shock the woman's heart back into rhythm, but the driver, who they learn is named Carly Yellowwood, is dead. From the autopsy, Pete finds Carly died of a drug overdose, although she didn't use drugs. The coroner lists the cause of death as murder. Pete sends his deputies to visit Carly's neighbors and learns she has been seeing two men. One is her ex-husband, Joe Yellowwood, a Native American living on the nearby reservation. No one knows the second man. Since Carly Yellowwood was divorced and has a new boyfriend. Pete believes its a crime of passion. Victoria, who hopes to adopt Carly's motherless child, thinks the motive is far darker.
About the Author:
Lyn Farquhar—penname Lyn Farrell—holds a Ph.D. from Michigan State University and is an experienced author, having published the seven book series (the Mae December mysteries) with Epicenter Press and four books in the Rosedale Investigations series: “The Blind Switch,” “The Blind Split,” “In the Frame,” and “The Family Man.” She has also published one women’s fiction book, “The Cottonwoods.”
To date, seven of her books have been picked up by a secondary publisher, Harlequin. Sales to date from both primary and secondary publishers are over 45,000. Lyn worked for Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine for 30+ years before retiring to pursue her dream of becoming a published fiction author. Lyn is the mother of two, has six step children and twelve grandchildren. She loves gardening, playing with her Cavalier King Charles spaniels and is always on the look-out for paintings by her famous artist grandfather Eugene Iverd.