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The Hanging

The Hanging

Author(s): Lotte and Soren Hammer

Location(s): Copenhagen

Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

Era(s): Modern

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On a cold Monday morning before school begins, two children make a gruesome discovery. Hanging from the roof of the school gymnasium are the bodies of five naked and heavily disfigured men. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen and his team from the Murder Squad in Copenhagen are called in to investigate this horrific case – the men hanging in a geometric pattern: the scene so closely resembling a public execution. When the identities of the five victims and the disturbing link between them is leaked to the press, the sinister motivation behind the killings quickly becomes apparent to the police. Up against a building internet campaign and even members of his own team, Simonsen finds that he must battle public opinion and vigilante groups in his mission to catch the killers.

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Outstanding crime thriller … Everything works in this dark Scandinavian procedural – the intelligent and complex plot, the fallible lead, and the atmospheric prose (Publishers Weekly)

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