Math Osseforth has been a storyteller all his life. As a teacher and public speaker he likes to entertain as well as to make people think and wonder about things known and unknown and about all the connections in between. In 2017 he got his Ph.D. in the humanities.

In 2010 his wife, Annelies, and he founded De Cicero Compagnie/The Cicero Company as a platform for talks, lectures, presentations as well as guided tours along the major cultural sites of European and world history. The couple liv...

It looks like a straightforward murder investigation. A deserted restaurant in a boarded-up hotel, a body slumped in a chair, a glass of wine on the table; a shady deal gone wrong. But what about that little wooden box with its skeletal finger enmeshed in silver? When the body is finally identified as the former parish priest, the story takes off in a completely unexpected direction. The finger points to crusaders, NAZI officers, and Tudor henchmen, among many others. Slowly, the mystery unfo...