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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...

A Death in Denmark

A Death in Denmark
  • Author(s): Amulya Malladi
  • Location(s): Berlin, Denmark
  • Genre(s): Noir, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Meet Gabriel Præst, an ex-Copenhagen cop (who dresses with panache), jazz aficionado, and relentless pursuer of truth as he explores Denmark’s Nazi-collaborator past and anti-Muslim present in a page-turning Nordic murder mystery with a cosmopolitan vibe Everyone in Denmark...

A Presence of Absence

A Presence of Absence
  • Author(s): Sarah Surgey, Emma Vestrheim
  • Location(s): Odense
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Odense Series is a new Nordic Noir/Brit Crime series that blends humanist stories and family drama with gritty crime in the central Danish city Odense. British detective Simon Weller escapes the fallout from the recent suicide of his...

A Scandinavian Summer

A Scandinavian Summer
  • Author(s): Helga Jensen
  • Location(s): Fanø
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s the right time for love, but is it the wrong place? After the tragic, premature death of her husband Anthony, Martha has spent all her time focused on her teenage daughter Rosie in their small Welsh village. But...

Anger Is My Middle Name

Anger Is My Middle Name
  • Author(s): Lisbeth Zornig Andersen, Mark Mussari (translator)
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption, and the rage that helped a girl escape the darkness of a harrowing childhood. Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older brothers were...

Beowulf

Beowulf
  • Author(s): Anonymous
  • Location(s): Denmark, Sweden
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): Medieval

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel’s mother. He then returns...

Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark

Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark
  • Author(s): Deborah Hopkinson
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Children, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

When the Nazis invaded Denmark on Tuesday, April 9, 1940, the people of this tiny country to the north of Germany awoke to a devastating surprise. The government of Denmark surrendered quietly, and the Danes were ordered to go...

Dark September

Dark September
  • Author(s): Inger Wolf
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, In Translation
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Award winning Scandinavian mystery From an international best-selling author It is late September, and Anna Kiehl, a student of anthropology and a single mother, does not return from her evening run in the forest. The next morning, she is found...

Dating Hamlet

Dating Hamlet
  • Author(s): Lisa Fiedler
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 1500s

Ophelia lives to tell the tale of what happened at Elsinore “The nights at Elsinore are longer than anywhere else. I have stayed awake these many weeks, which has aided me greatly in my portrayal of one who has...

Death Sentence

Death Sentence
  • Author(s): Mikkel Birkegaard
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): early 2000s

A murder committed on paper, safely within the confines of a novel, is one thing. To see that same crime in the real world, is something else entirely. . . Frank Føns is a very successful crime writer. His...

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