Gesine Schulz

Author Gesine Schulz has a penchant for slightly overgrown bookshelves & gardens. She lives in the Germany's Ruhr area, but also enjoys spending time gardening, reading, and writing in Ireland, the setting of her well-loved book EINE TÜTE GRÜNER WIND, now in its 25th edition.

English edition: THE GREENEST WIND – A SUMMER IN IRELAND, translated by Rebecca Heier.

Gesine, grandniece of a London butler, also published the series GLÜCKSKATER DARCY, six novellas which are set in England:

Until well into the summer, all sorts of people give temporary shelter to a cat. When he moves on to find his way back home something has changed in those people's lives. For the better. By chance? Or did Darcy have a paw in it?

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.

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.

Photo:Dirk A. Friedrich