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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 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...

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...

A Copenhagen Snowmance

A Copenhagen Snowmance
  • Author(s): Pernille Hughes
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern day

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...

Maybe Baby

Maybe Baby
  • Author(s): Kim Golden
  • Location(s): Stockholm, Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Imagine finding out you could never have a baby with the man you love… Expat American Laney Halliwell finds out the hard way when Niklas tells her he had a vasectomy before they met and isn’t interested in reversing...

Maybe Tomorrow

Maybe Tomorrow
  • Author(s): Kim Golden
  • Location(s): Denmark, Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No such thing as love… Eddy and Henrik don’t believe in love. At least, that’s what they keep telling themselves. They’ve been burned in the past, and neither wants to be that vulnerable again. A summer fling… That’s all...

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
  • Author(s): Dorthe Nors
  • Location(s): Denmark, Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Sonja’s over forty, and she’s trying to move in the right direction. She’s learning to drive. She’s joined a meditation group. And she’s attempting to reconnect with her sister. But Sonja would rather eat cake than meditate. Her driving...

Out of the Dark

Out of the Dark
  • Author(s): Heidi Amsinck
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

#4 Jensen Thriller Matilde Clausen, 9, vanishes from a crowded playground in the middle of Copenhagen, triggering a frantic search across the city. When a possible link emerges to the disappearance of Lea Høgh, 10, six years ago, DI...

Probably the Best Kiss in the World

Probably the Best Kiss in the World
  • Author(s): Pernille Hughes
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jen Attison likes her life Just So. But being fished out of a canal in Copenhagen by her knickers is definitely NOT on her to do list. From cinnamon swirls to a spontaneous night of laughter and fireworks, Jen’s...

Smilla’s Sense of Snow

Smilla’s Sense of Snow
  • Author(s): Peter Høeg, Tiina Nunnally (translator)
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): 1990s

She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love.  She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories–a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land.  And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering...

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