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It's late January in Loon Lake and bodies abound: a woman on snowshoes has been discovered wedged under a wooden bridge on a cross-country ski trail. A day later, Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris interviews a couple who alleges that the wife, a former nun, is being stalked. Meanwhile, Loon Lake is hosting an International Ice Fishing Festival with problems.
Fishing, North Woods color mystery writers storiesBy Heather Lee Schroeder June 29, 2001 In her teens and 20s, mystery author Victoria Houston was the classic hometown girl who couldn't wait to leave her small Wisconsin town. Now, more than 30 years later, she has not only returned to her hometown, Rhinelander, but she has based her popular mystery series in the region's fishing culture. In fact, while Houston, 56, has changed course many times in her life, her travels and experiences seem to have led to only one logical conclusion: writing. Today, after being married twice, raising three children, having a successful career in publicity and promotions and writing five nonfiction books, Houston has reinvented herself yet again, this time as a mystery writer. This new phase is marked by focus and quiet, she says. It's also marked by the success of the mystery series (including the books "Dead Angler" and "Dead Creek" ). The third novel, "Dead Water", has just been released. The series features a retired dentist and avid fisherman, Doctor Osbourne, as its protagonist. The doctor - who lives in a small mythical northern woods - often helps his friend and love interest Lewellyn Ferris, the local female chief of police, solve mysteries that revolve around fly and bait fishing and the deep waters of the North Woods. Houston says the lakes and culture of northern Wisconsin make for a great setting for her novels. "I realized this is a culture I grew up in", Houston says of her use of fishing in the novels. "The world of fishing is home to me". Indeed, Houston fished as a child and now fishes again regularly. In addition, her father, grandfather and uncle were all dentists. "My characters are distilled from all those characters I knew as I grew up", she says. In her early 40s, Houston made her first attempt to write the novel. At her agent's behest she rewrote it - four times. Then she took a hiatus from writing and start
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