Lene Lauritsen Kjølner
The Christmas Mystery at Sjøfryd
Sjøfryd 1

This is a crime novel, but also bursting with Christmas spirit and humour!
Kitty, ex-cabin crew, works at the charming Sjøfryd, a residential home for seniors, among quirky oldsters, cheery staff and helpful ghosts.
Christmas is nearly upon us with full force, and there’sful force in weather,too, when one stormy night poor Teddy tumbles into the waves.
There’s something weird about his fatal accident. not right about his death. At any rate, that’s the view of the Sjøfryd Snoopers, who decide to discover the truth about what may turn out to be murder.
Kitty, whose pet is Wanda the fish, also wants to find out who stole Colin’s beloved koi fish and and also wonders whether he’s dealing in fabulous Jaguars or other fine things.
Then there’s cheeky Ron, who grows lavender in Grasse, and is a good-hearted aid to refugees. Is he too good to be true?
There are many threads, but perhaps all will be explained at Christmas, among snoopers, gamers, Norwegian cakes, Icelandic shark, something beautiful and something British.
This book is written as a Christmas Calendar - with 24 chapters!

Lene Lauritsen Kjølner

Kristine Hellemo

Lene Lauritsen Kjølner, b 1962, are a Norwegian crime- and feelgood-writer in a genre close to Alan Bradley, Agatha Christie, Jenny Colgan and Alexander McCall Smith. She lives in Tønsberg, in the south of Norway, where she works full time as a writer and translator. She is married to a musician and has two sons. For her debut in 2014, “Høyt henger de”, she received the Maurits Hansen-award “Nytt blod” – as the best crime debut that year. Lene has written nine books in the planned 12-book series about private detective Olivia Henriksen, several short stories, five Christmas novels and four feelgood novels. So far!