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Winter is an opportunity to retreat and it is a time for contemplation. At least that is what I often hear. For me, this winter is a pretty active season. The manuscript of my latest crime novel “Cries from the Cold” is in the hands of my copy editor right Read More

Okay, winter is here in Northern Newfound and I just love it – so far. I am no stranger to snow and cold because I was raised in Switzerland. I can handle the white stuff as long as I can go on walks outside. The secret to the cold season Read More

Right now I feel like the reader of a slow-burning crime novel where not much happens at the beginning but the suspense gradually builds up and one expects something horrible to happen soon. I am staying in a remote village in Northern Newfoundland and I have told many people how Read More

When the days get shorter and the nights longer, one needs things that warm one’s heart. It doesn’t have to be something grandiose, sometimes it’s the fleeting moments and the little gestures that are like a wonderful light in the dark. For instance baking a Swiss apple pie like my Read More

When you live in a remote part of a country, you don`t take it for granted that parcels arrive in your neck of the woods. I’ve been lucky: I got a box full of copies of my new book “Murderous Morning” that had crossed the border from the United States Read More

My new crime novel “Murderous Morning” which will be published on November 9, is set in a remote mining town in the North of the Canadian province British Columbia. Wilderness surrounds Whatou Lake, but while the town is fictional, the wilderness, the mountains, the coast and the ocean aren`t. I Read More

I`m so excited that my new English crime novel “Murderous Morning” is available for preorders on Amazon! You pay only 1.99 dollars-US for the e-book! You have all been waiting patiently, but here it is – finally! Publication date is November 7, if all goes according to plan. There will Read More

I know that Covid-19 has upended a lot of lives – possibly yours, too. So many destroyed hopes, futures, families, jobs. I cannot imagine what many people have to go through, on top of the struggles they have had already. I`m spending the summer in Newfoundland, as always, but I Read More

I have always been fascinated by abandoned fishing settlements on the island of Newfoundland where I am staying right now. Whenever I have the chance, I visit these mysterious locations: the shores where fishermen conquered the ocean in their small boats, the homes of large families who often had a Read More

It is comforting to know that even monumental things can fade away or vanish completely. Icebergs for instance. These white giants who have traveled from Greenland to the Northern tip of the Canadian island of Newfoundland, can look intimidating when one gets close. And thinking that only a small part Read More