The Thirteenth Crime: The Ghosts of Injustice in Frontier Otter Tail County

by Janet Preus

227 pages, Paperback

Published January 23, 2025

Reviews

[Lindagail Roy · Rating 5 out of 5]

What do you do when a teenagers ghost grabs you and won't let go? Writing that makes the past come alive with unvarnished historical facts that expose frontier life. Meticulous historical research that creates an accurate pictures of our early justice system. Ms. Preus uncovers the injustices of the law in the newly organized county of Otter Tail, Minnesota. And she paints it using lovely prose; "...pale blue eyes, empty and lost, like a summer sky with no clouds to define it." The ghosts of these crimes wouldn't let go until the author put them to rest on paper.