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A new look into an old story
The cold case file of the murders of a wealthy Detroit-area family in their northern Michigan
cabin in 1968
When Evil Came to Good Hart
by Mardi Link
Cloth: 978-0-472-11666-9 / $60 Paper: 978-0-472-03315-7/ $22.95
Publication Date: June 2008
In this page-turning true-life whodunit, author Mardi Link details all the evidence to date. She
crafts her book around police and court documents and historical and present-day statements and
interviews, in addition to exploring the impact of the case on the community of Good Hart and
the stigma that surrounds the popular summer getaway. Adding to both the sense of tragic history
and the suspense, Link laces her tale with fascinating bits of local and Indian lore, while dozens
of colorful characters enter and leave the story, spicing the narrative.
Despite the exhaustive investigative efforts of numerous individuals, decades later the case lies
tantalizingly out of reach. It is still an unsolved cold case, yielding, in Link's words, forty years
worth of "dead-end leads, anonymous tips, a few hard facts, and countless cockamamie theories."
Mardi Link is a journalist and the 2007 Betty Crumrine Scholar from the Antioch Writers'
Workshop. She is the cofounder and former editor of ForeWord magazine and the former editor
of Small Press magazine. She lives in Traverse City.
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at www.press.umich.edu/mediakits. For interviews with Mardi Link or other requests, please
contact Heather Newman (below).
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