Novels & Mysteries

The Chloe Ellefson series combines history and mystery with a little bit of romance! For adults and mature teens, these traditional mysteries feature the reluctant sleuth Chloe and her boyfriend Roelke McKenna. She's a curator at the museum Old World...

Chloe Ellefson returns with a new mystery rooted in Norwegian heritage and set at Vesterheim Museum in Decorah, Iowa! For curator Chloe Ellefson, a family bonding trip to Decorah for rosemaling classes at Vesterheim seems like a great idea –...

The story is set at Old World Wisconsin, a living history museum where author Kathleen Ernst worked as an interpreter and curator. After twelve years she moved on, but found herself missing the place! So she decided to write adult...

A road trip to the past turns deadly when museum curator Chloe Ellefson gets custody of an old quilt, said to have belonged to author Laura Ingalls Wilder, and she and her sister Kari set out on the Wilder road...

Four Major Plays: Volume I A Doll House • The Wild Duck • Hedda Gabler • The Master Builder Among the greatest and best known of Ibsen’s works, these four plays brilliantly exemplify his landmark contributions to the theater: his...

Curator Chloe Ellefson is excited to be learning about Wisconsin's early immigrants and mining while on temporary assignment. But when her boyfriend, police officer Roelke McKenna, discovers long-buried human remains in the root cellar of an old cottage, Chloe reluctantly...

Curator Chloe Ellefson is happily planning to spotlight home-front challenges and German immigrants at Old World Wisconsin's first Civil War reenactment—but her overbearing boss scorns her ideas and proposes staging a mock battle. When a reenactor is found dead at...

Chloe Ellefson is off to Minneapolis to help her friend Ariel write a proposal to convert an abandoned flour mill into a museum. When a dead body is found stuffed in a grain chute, Chloe's attention turns from milling to...