With twenty-four stories--"one for each night in December as we count down to Christmas--"this is a perfect book to share with the whole family. The stories are by turns humorous, touching, sad, and sentimental. Some stories tell of Christmas traditions from other countries and cultures that we may not be familiar with. For those, we have included a short piece explaining what that tradition is, where it comes from, and how it ties into our own customs. The lush illustrations from Austrian illustrator Silke Leffler are reminiscent of Zwerger at her best. Complete with a ribbon marker, this is a gift book to treasure for years to come.
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In her series of crime stories Gesine Schulz writes about the (not always clean) cases of Karo Rutkowsky, out-of-work teacher, moonlighting cleaning lady and chronically cash-strapped private detective.
In translation, one of these stories, "The Panama Hen", was included in "The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fourth Annual Collection", edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg; this story and other stories are also available as Kindle eBooks.
"Privatdetektivin Billie Pinkernell" is the young detective of her German children's mystery series. Billie solves cases in the small town of Rabenstein, where she inherited an old villa from her great-great-aunt Malwine.
After spending more than a decade living abroad, mostly in New York, but also in South America, Ireland, and Switzerland, nowadays Gesine Schulz divides her time between Essen/Germany and West Cork/Ireland, the setting of her well-loved book "Eine Tuete gruener Wind" (and, incidentally, of "The Growing Summer"/"The Magic Summer" by Noel Streatfeild).
Gesine Schulz is a past president of "Moerderische Schwestern" (formerly: Sisters in Crime, German Chapter) and is currently working on a crime novel.
www.billie-pinkernell.de
www.gesineschulz.com
