Viking Witch Cozy Mysteries

When her mother dies after a long illness, Ingrid Torfa must sell the family home to cover the medical bills. Her career as a book illustrator not yet exactly launched, Ingrid faces two options: live in her battered old Volkswagen, or go back to her mother's small town in northern Minnesota. The small town that still haunts her dreams more than a decade since she last visited it. Or rather, not the town but the grandmother. All of the drawings she fills notebooks with witches and the trolls that do their bidding? Not as whimsical in her nightmares as she sketches them in the bright light of day. If not for her beloved cat Mjollnir, living in the Volkswagen just might tempt her. But the cat wants four walls and a door, so north she goes. And finds trouble in the form of a dead body before she even finds her grandmother's little town. How much can a town of stoic fishermen possibly be hiding? As Ingrid is about to find out, quite a lot.

Ingrid Torfa juggles two very different lives. In one she lives as an aspiring book illustrator in a quiet old fishing village on the North Shore of Lake Superior.But in the other she lives as an apprentice volva, a Viking Witch, in a lost Norse village that exists half in and half out of the real world.Balancing those two lives is trouble enough. But then a murder forces her to work in both worlds at once. She needs all her friends to help her solve this case.But first, they all have to meet. And half of them are about to get their minds blown.Murder on the Lake, book 3 in the Viking Witch Cozy Mystery series.

Winter has come to the lost Norse village of Villmark, the wind and snow separating cozy house from cozy house like a knife breaks apart shortbread. And, for the first time in her life, Ingrid Torfa lives alone. No mother, no grandmother, no roommate. Just a big, empty house and a cat, who loves to disappear. Magical studies fill her every waking hour, and yet, those hours stretch out in unbroken silence. Until a scream rents the night, drawing every neighbor out into the cold streets. A woman lies dead at the bottom of the well. It looks like an accident to the villagers, but to Ingrid it feels like a murder. Luckily, Ingrid knows just the friends to help her solve the mystery. Not even the bite of winter can stop them from uncovering the truth.

A year ago, Ingrid Torfudottir moved to the North Shore of Lake Superior intending to live a quiet life in the sleepy fishing town she thought her mother was born in. Just her and her grandmother in a snug little cabin, running the local get-together spot while Ingrid pursues a career as a book illustrator.Instead, she learned that her mother, like her grandmother before her, was born in a hidden village founded in the Viking age by Norse settlers long before the time of Columbus. Ingrid's ancestress wove powerful magic to keep her people safe. And Ingrid wears the mantle of that responsibility now, in the modern age.She is their volva. Their Viking witch.But that mantle comes with more responsibility than merely maintaining spells. It means learning all she needs to know, but in half the time any of her ancestors took. And frequently for Ingrid, it means investigating a murder. Or, in this strangely snowy October, a string of murders. Because when a killer employs magic, no one else stands a chance at stopping them before they strike again.And something more than unseasonable weather seems to be blowing in from the North.

When her mother died after a long illness, Ingrid Torfa sold the family home to cover the medical bills. Her career as a book illustrator not yet exactly launched, Ingrid moved back to her mother's small hometown in northern Minnesota and the grandmother she scarcely remembered.Then she learned the truth she had forgotten since her early childhood: that Vikings still exist, and her grandmother serves as their spiritual leader and protector.Now Ingrid must leave the modern world behind for a time and immerse herself in this forgotten world. She must know if she has what it takes to serve the people of Villmark as her grandmother serves them.Or if her destiny lies instead among her friends in the modern world of Runde, Minnesota.No easy decision. But at least her magical cat Mjolner remains always by her side. Together, they can face anything either world can throw at them.Even if it's murder.This box set includes the second three novels in THE VIKING WITCH COZY MYSTERIESKILLING IN THE VILLAGE COMMONSBLOODSHED IN THE FORESTCORPSE IN THE MEAD HALL

When her mother dies after a long illness, Ingrid Torfa must sell the family home to cover the medical bills. Her career as a book illustrator not yet exactly launched, Ingrid faces two options: live in her battered old Volkswagen, or go back to her mother's small town in northern Minnesota. The small town that still haunts her dreams more than a decade since she last visited it. Or rather, not the town but the grandmother. All of the drawings she fills notebooks with witches and the trolls that do their bidding? Not as whimsical in her nightmares as she sketches them in the bright light of day. If not for her beloved cat Mjolner, living in the Volkswagen just might tempt her. But the cat wants four walls and a door, so north she goes. And that's where her adventures begin. This box set includes the first three novels in THE VIKING WITCH COZY MYSTERIES, BODY AT THE CROSSROADS, DEATH UNDER THE BRIDGE, MURDER ON THE LAKE.