White-winged schooners once dominated commerce and culture on the Great Lakes, and songs relieved the hours on board, but that way of life and its music ended when steam-driven mechanical boats swept schooners from the inland seas. Recognizing in the late 1930s, almost too late, that this rich oral tradition was going to the grave along with the last generation of schoonermen, Ivan H. Walton undertook a quest to save the songs of the Great Lakes sailors. Racing time and its ravages, he searched out ancient mariners in lakefront hospitals, hangouts, and watering holes. Walton reconstructed songs from one of the most colorful periods in American history, discovering melodies and lyrics to more than a hundred songs. With its stories, lyrics, musical scores by folksinger/historian Lee Murdock, and accompanying CD, Windjammers ensures that sailing chanteys that have not been heard for over one hundred years can be heard again and again far into the future.

Homicide Detective Brie Beaumont returns in a riveting psychological thriller featuring a cast of dark and troubled characters. Something feels amiss about the group of seven friends who charter Maine Wind for the last cruise of the season that turns deadly when one of them is lost overboard. While making for home port, Brie investigates a case that becomes more enigmatic at every turn. As she drills down through layers of hatred, mistrust, and deception, old crimes come to light, and tensions ratchet up with each passing hour. When a storm looms at sea, the closed environment of the ship weighs heavy on them all as death stalks this ill-fated cruise.

While on a leave of absence from work, Brie goes to Sentinel Island to repair a lighthouse with a sailing crew and winds up investigating a local artist's sudden disappearance, which becomes difficult as the locals refuse to help her.

Award Winning Author Jenifer LeClair Delivers A Taut Thriller That Builds To A Shattering Climax Set Against the Rugged Maine Coast and the Bay Of Fundy A Landscape Both Beautiful and Unforgiving Detective Brie Beaumont teams with the Maine State Police to investigate a grisly murder away Down East near the village of Tucker Harbor, Maine. A second death, a four-year-old mystery involving a research scientist, and a mysterious unexplained phenomenon draw Brie into an ever-tightening web of intrigue and danger. Themes of isolation and the destructive power of secrets play hauntingly throughout this gripping thriller, the third in Jenifer LeClairs acclaimed Windjammer Mystery Series.

Photographer Frank Chillemi experienced the coast of Maine with its evocative light and beauty for the first time in 1988, and in his heart he has never left. Working, studying, and teaching along these shores ever since, Frank has produced a body of work, represented in this book, that reflects his love, passion, and utmost respect for the land and the sea, its maritime traditions, and the people who call this coast home.

After six months on leave in Maine, Homicide Detective Brie Beaumont returns home to Minnesota to make decisions about her life and career with the Minneapolis Police Department. But her partner's death still haunts her, and she soon realizes that, to be whole again, she must solve the case of Detective Phil Thatcher's murder-a case that went cold eighteen months ago. But threatening letters, a shadowy character, and a shooting on the North Shore where she is vacationing make Brie question her decision. When a tip from a confidential informant reveals surprising and disturbing new information about the case, Brie decides to undergo hypnosis in an attempt to recover the missing pieces from that terrible night in North Minneapolis. With locales on the north shore of Lake Superior, Minneapolis, and the coast of Maine, Death in the Blood Moon provides a canvas rich in both characters and settings as this page-turning double mystery unfolds.

"A chilling tale of murder unfolds during a fierce September hurricane on the Maine coast in this haunting story of two deaths mysteriously bound together by the long reach of time. As Hurricane Ivan bears down on the coast, the crew of the Maine Wind retrieves the body of a young woman from the sea. Who is she and how did she die? The search for the woman's identity thrusts Homicide Detective Brie Beaumont into an investigation on Apparition Island in the aftermath of the violent storm. A verdict of undetermined death begs the question: Was this an accidental drowning: did Claire Whitehall commit suicide, or was she murdered? As a baffling investigation unfolds, Brie is drawn back into a decades old cold case--one that has cast its shadow into the present, where she could become its next victim"--Page [4] of cover.