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The Butterfly House

The Butterfly House
  • Author(s): Katrine Engberg
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the coronary care unit at one of Copenhagen’s leading medical centres, a nurse fills a syringe with an overdose of heart medication and stealthily enters the room of an older male patient. Six days earlier, a paperboy on...

The Copenhagen Affair

The Copenhagen Affair
  • Author(s): Amulya Malladi
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in the capital city of the world’s happiest country, a comedy of manners about depression, the pressures of marriage, and the possibility of falling in love again, from the bestselling author of A House for Happy Mothers. Sanya...

The Final Nail

The Final Nail
  • Author(s): Stefan Ahnhem, Agnes Broomé (Translator)
  • Location(s): Copenhagen, Helsingborg
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He has extorted. He has abused. He has raped. He has sacrificed colleagues as a means to reach the top. His name is Kim Sleizner – and he works as a police chief in Copenhagen. Dunja Hougaard used to...

The Harbour

The Harbour
  • Author(s): Katrine Engberg
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kørner & Werner, Book 3 A boy is missing. A web of lies will be uncovered… When fifteen-year-old Oscar Dreyer-Hoff disappears, it’s assumed he’s another teenage runaway – an overlooked middle child who will turn up within 24 hours....

The Helsingør Sewing Club

The Helsingør Sewing Club
  • Author(s): Ella Gyland
  • Location(s): Copenhagen, Helsingør
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1943 / 2018

Helsingør, Denmark, 1943 In the midst of the German occupation during World War Two, Inger Bredahl joins the underground resistance and risks her life to save members of Denmark’s Jewish community and help them escape to Sweden. Copenhagen, 2018...

The House That Jack Built

The House That Jack Built
  • Author(s): Jakob Melander
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern Times

The first book in the crime series featuring Lars Winkler: loner, dad, former squatter, and drug addict — and the most dedicated detective in Copenhagen. A young prostitute is found murdered at the common in Copenhagen. The woman’s body...

The Island

The Island
  • Author(s): Katrine Engberg
  • Location(s): Bornholm, Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Keeper of Lost Causes

The Keeper of Lost Causes
  • Author(s): Jussi Adler-Olsen
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The first in the Department Q series At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She...

The Killing II

The Killing II
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

David Hewson’s The Killing 2 is the novelization of the second series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing. It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left Copenhagen...

The Killing III

The Killing III
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A family in turmoil. A country in crisis. All debts must be settled. As gripping as Søren Sveistrup’s TV series, David Hewson’s crime thriller The Killing 3 is inspired by the Danish hit The Killing.

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