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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...










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