Christmas Card or Present?
Now, here’s a thing: How about a book as your Christmas card? Just 3.99 at Barnes & Noble – you set the date – and your Season’s greeting will be in the in-box right on ...
Kind
I’ll take you on a trip today though words are all I’ve got. I’ll show you stuff that’s really there or maybe what is not. Perhaps we’ll stop along the way in places cold or ...
Barney
It had been a hot day. Swelteringly hot. The sun had baked down on the remains of the village and even the grass was gasping. There was no life. Nothing to be seen. No birds, ...
Bestseller on Xinxii
Now, who’d have thought? Into Their Stride is on Xinxii’s bestsellerlist, and well, I am happy. There’s a first for everything and this is a good one. Hope more will enjoy a trip to the ...
A Christmas Serving
It happens again. No Christmas without a murder in the Merkantia department-store. This time it’s a very special serving. But how did the man get in there in the middle of the night? Who is ...
Family Matters
Good luck, a shot, an unexpected journey… Things come together to reach a solution across three continents. Join the holidays, the Sports Sunday, the celebration in the park, the ball… some places more dangerous than ...
All Things Hidden
All Things Hidden Time to learn about house decoration – and a lot of other things. Come along to the vegetable garden, behind the mirror, and on a trip to Paris. A Paris filled with ...
Merkantia Mysteries
Now the Christmas mysteries have got their very own website: Merkantia.dk where you’ll find the books in both Danish and English – and a bit about the department store. This year’s story is A Christmas Serving ...
Across the World
Third book in the Lendorph & la Cour series ready to read Detective sergeant Christian la Cour continues his unmatched efforts at the Detective Office, knowing the importance of pocket lint. Helena gets unskilled labour ...
A Personal Touch
As journalist Anna Lendorph fears her ‘detective career’ is over, maybe it isn’t. Maybe her rather special skills are just the thing, when neighbours interfere, couriers don’t show up, a snake arrives in paradise, private ...
Shadows
There are those who watch, those who act, and those who think they are in charge. Greetings from 2043. I’m sitting here reading s-mails, even though it’s more than old-fashioned, but at 83, one is ...
Into Their Stride
The first book in the Lendorph& la Cour series is out now – at least as a paperback in Denmark and on Amazon. A couple of weeks more and you can get the e-book around ...
Ceci n’est pas une…
The first problem with AI, as I’ve just encountered with ChatGPT, is that AI creates something that resembles something else. Here, the choice of the word ‘resembles’ is critical. And then, there are all the ...
Athena on the couch
Athena had been feeling down for a while, and the nursing home management had started to worry. Medication wasn’t a popular solution at the place – side effects are in a league of their own ...
Existentially challenged
All he knew was, that breathing was no longer an option. Then what do you do? Well, stop trying. He did. And then he waited. He lay still waiting for… well, something. Or maybe rather ...
One
They sat on the front porch looking out in the growing darkness. She leaned her head on her mother’s arm and sighed. ‘They’re so far away’, she said. ‘Stars’. ‘Mmmm yes. And no.’ Her mother ...
Tolkien and the elastic of mind
The present hype around LOTR has made some people ask why we seem to need this stuff and why people embrace stories like these. I’ll dare the statement that it is sheer necessity – a ...
Christmas at the Post Office
There was a queue. News of the lieutenant’s dog had spread, and it wasn’t just the residents of Sakskøbing who felt the urge to send their Christmas mail from Sakskøbing Post Office. The dog sat ...
Santa Surprise
It’s December 1932. A man in a Santa suit is found dead behind the sleigh in the first ever Santa display at the Merkantia department store. What was he doing there after hours? Who is ...
Freya’s Christmas Cake
I once had a go at the traditional English Christmas pud (boiled in a cloth) and failed spectaturlarly. So I made my own recipe for a Christmas cake to my taste and oven.It has turned ...
Pieces of Mind
Assorted poetry about life, the multiverse and everything. HIT OR MISS Inspiration sleets through the universe; photons of creativity hit random minds. Sometimes they explode, unfold, become. ‘Pieces of Mind’ is available as ...