Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen
After some years as a teacher, Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen has embarked on a new career as a writer of crime fiction. She lives in Denmark, near the North Sea, and she writes mysteries in English as well as her native language. In 2010 she sold her first stories to American magazines and publishers. She set out writing some cosy mysteries and collections of short stories. Her most popular cosy is The Cosy Knave – a humorous and cosy novel featuring village constable Archibald Penrose and his plucky fiancée, the librarian Rhapsody Gershwin. In 2012 she published her first serious psychological mystery, “Anna Märklin’s Family Chronicles”, a bestseller set in Denmark. “Anna Märklin” is a standalone, whereas Jakobsen’s latest book, “North Sea Cottage” is the first in a planned series about the amateur detective and writer Tora Skammelsen from an isolated village in Jutland. The Tora Skammelsen series has been well received in Denmark, and more stories will be published soon.