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The Blood Strand

The Blood Strand
  • Author(s): Chris Ould
  • Location(s): The Faroe Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to WW2

Having left the Faroes as a child, Jan Reyna is now a British police detective, and the islands are foreign to him. But he is drawn back when his estranged father is found unconscious with a shotgun by his...

The Killing

The Killing
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs . . . There is a bright monocular eye that follows, like a hunter after a wounded deer. It moves in a slow approaching...

Rage Against Dying

Rage Against Dying
  • Author(s): Becky Masterman
  • Location(s): Arizona, Falster
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

After a long and murky career with the FBI, Brigid Quinn is trying to move on. She’s got a nice house. Dogs. A husband who knows nothing of her past. But the abduction and murder of a young female...

The Marco Effect

The Marco Effect
  • Author(s): Jussi Adler-Olsen
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime

The fifth novel in the Department Q series. Detective Carl Morck and his two unconventional assistants operate out of a basement office and work on cold cases.  Naturally he has his quirks being a European detective, and this time...

The Boy in the Suitcase

The Boy in the Suitcase
  • Author(s): Lena Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis
  • Location(s): Copenhagen, Denmark, Lithuania
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife and mother of two, is trying to live a quiet life. The last thing her husband wants is for her to go running off on another dangerous mission to help illegal refugees....

The Hanging

The Hanging
  • Author(s): Lotte and Soren Hammer
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

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...

The Woman from Bratislava

The Woman from Bratislava
  • Author(s): Leif Davidsen
  • Location(s): Bratislava, Denmark
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 1900s

In Bratislava, Teddy Pedersen, a middle-aged, Danish university lecturer, receives a visit from an Eastern European woman who turns out to be his half-sister. Father to both of them was a Danish SS officer who had officially been declared...

The Library of Shadows

The Library of Shadows
  • Author(s): Mikkel Birkegaard
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Era(s): Modern

Imagine that some people have the power to affect your thoughts and feelings when you read, or they read a book to you. They can seduce you with amazing stories, conjure up vividly imagined worlds, but also manipulate you...

The Murder of Halland

The Murder of Halland
  • Author(s): Pia Juul
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Denmark, Bess is coming to terms with the death (by shooting) of her husband Halland. Why was he shot? The chapters are short, vignettes, describing her encounters with different people who move in and out of her...

A Copenhagen Snowman

A Copenhagen Snowman
  • Author(s): Pernille Hughes
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She only packed for a flying visit. Now she’s stuck with no flights, no hotel and no plan B. Anna Lundholm was only supposed to be in Copenhagen for a few hours. Just long enough to tie up some...

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