Could something like murder happen in Fergus Fallsâ€"a quiet Minnesota town known for its Scandinavian heritage and great lake fishing? Yah, you betcha!
Every August Dr. George Gherkin, the Fergus Falls State University president, hosts a fa...
In the good old Minnesota town of Fergus Falls, murder is about as common as shorts-wearing tourists in January. But even in quiet Nordic towns, strange things can happen in the dead of winter.
Eager to retire, insurance company owner "Pink...
Everybody wants Homer Grimstead's land. Unfortunately, someone was willing to kill for it. The Otter Tail Bird Watching and Conservation Society, or the O.T.B.W.A.C.S., wants to protect and watch birds on Homer s land. The bird in question is the T. ...
"Victim stood in the shadows behind the giant blue ox. It was eerily silent. The only sounds came from a few ripples gently lapping onto the shore of Lake Bemidji and, in the distance, exhaust fumes drifted through the air from a passing tanker on Hi...
After a lifetime of reading British history and British Whodunits, Palmer Knutson, the famous Norwegian-American sheriff of Otter Tail County, Minnesota, and his lovely wife Ellie, take the trip of a lifetime and visit England. They drive around the ...
Many Americans would be surprised to learn that England had an active fascist party in the years before World War II. Yet, by 1936, the British Union of Fascists of Sir Oswald Mosley had become a growing threat. Many British admired Mussolini for his...
This book is a collection of short stories featuring Sheriff Palmer Knutson and Scotland Yard detective Robert Wainwright. In British terms, a stone is a unit of weight equal to fourteen pounds. There are twenty-one stories, so this comes to about a ...
The body of the Eirik the Viking, known far and wide for the quality of his axes that can split a Saxon skull, is found downstream from the old mill. It appears that he was slain by his own weapon. Such a foul deed might not have been rare in elevent...
Based on a real event, The Uffda Trial is set in the fictitious western Minnesota town of Vingelen, an extremely homogenous Scandinavian community, in 1926. It may be the “Roaring Twenties,” but 23-year-old Karl Thorson has had to quit high schoo...
Big mama knew how to bring the family together. It would happen all of a sudden. It's funny, she just knew when it was time. She wouldn't say a word, she would pull out an old drum, a Djembe drum to be exact and she would just start playing it. She h...