Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Grand Rapids
Reinder Van Til is a longtime editor at Eerdmans Publishing Co.  In addition to writing a nonfiction book, Lost Daughters: Recovered Memory  Therapy and the People It Hurts (Eerdmans), he has collaborated with  William Brashler (under the pseudonym Crabbe Evers) in five murder  mysteries set in baseball stadiums, including Murder in Wrigley Field and  Tigers Burning.Gordon Olson was Grand Rapids city historian for twenty-five years  (1978-2003) and is still very involved in Grand Rapids history projects. He  has served on the board of the National Council on Public History and has  been president of the Historical Society of Michigan. Among his other books  are Beads: Their Use by Upper Great Lakes Indians and A Grand Rapids  Sampler.