Death Takes a Flyer

Death Takes a Flyer is a mystery set in 1950 in Camp Five, a logging camp attached to the mill town of Kinzua, Oregon. Marge O’Connor’s first job after college is teaching the upper four grades of the two-room school. When a young wife and mother goes missing, then her mother-in-law is found dead on a Flexible Flyer sled, Marge finds herself in the maelstrom of murderous events. A snowstorm cuts the little community off from the outside world, narrowing the possible suspects to Marge’s friends and neighbors. The murderer knows her every move, putting her in grave danger.

Author Biography

Barbara J. Olexer is a fourth-generation Oregonian. She has written more than twenty books and screenplays. Her first published book was The Enslavement of the American Indian, a nonfiction account of that little-known segment of American history. Her formative years were spent in small farming towns and a backwoods logging camp. Barbara’s life has been a tapestry of changes as she has lived and worked in small Oregon towns, such as Ashland, Camp Five (a logging camp that belonged to Kinzua Pine Mills), Klamath Falls, and Malin, as well as some of the country’s biggest cities, such as San Francisco, Hollywood, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. On retirement, Barbara returned to the Pacific Northwest where her two grown sons and her grandchildren live. She lives in Milwaukie, Oregon, with her husband and two cats.