Newell Searle is a Minnesota writer who grew up on a farm and draws inspiration from the people and landscapes that formed him. He began publishing as a historian and later switched to fiction. Copy Desk Murders is the first novel in a trilogy rooted in (a not too fictitious) rural county. During a thrity-five-year career in public affairs, he worked at Cargill, Inc., held an appointed post at the state’s department of agriculture and retired from an executive post at Second Harvest Heartland, a major hunger relief organization. He published Saving Quetico-Superior, A Land Set Apart in 1977, a narrative of wilderness protection that received the Frederick Weyerhaeuser Book Award from the Forest History Society in 1979. He lives in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and posts occasional essays at https://fetterlyroad.com.
