A Culture Kid Mystery — by D-L Nelson

• Sep-2010

Annie Young, a 33 year old technical writer, was born in the United States but has lived mostly in Europe with her Swiss based parents. She is a "Third-Culture Kid" not quite comfortable in Europe but totally uncomfortable in America. After her fathe...

• Dec-2011

When history buff and multi-lingual American tech writer Annie Young returns to her studio nest in Southern France from her Zurich assignment, she can hardly wait to see what Pere Yves has to tell her about the research they had been sharing in nearb...

• Nov-2012

When Dr. Urs Stoller's body washes up on the Lac Léman beach, no one is sad. His wife, Maria-Elena, a chemist at a pharmaceutical company, is more upset that her lover is reuniting with his wife. Dr. Stoller is the thesis advisor for his mistress, M...

• Jul-2013

Tech writer Annie Young breaks her engagement when her fiance forbids her to take an assignment documenting a Paris dig at the site of thirteenth century inn supervised by her old lover archeologist Luca Martinelli. Amelie another dig volunteer is...

• Mar-2014

Annie Young's forte is tech writing and historical research. But with disconcerting frequency as she travels for projects around the world, she finds herself in the middle of murder investigations. American-born Annie thinks she's landed an easy assi...

• May-2015

After a friend is murdered and another friend becomes the main suspect, Annie Young-Perret decides to investigate the crime only to discover that the one of the four world-famous bankers secretly meeting in her Alpine village may have had something t...

• Sep-2016

Brother Fritz wants to sell. Sister Petra wants to expand. The Bircher family has manufactured cookies in the picturesque Swiss canton of Schwyz since the late 1800s. And Annie Young-Perret was warned, when she took an assignment to write a history o...