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Shadow of the Crown

Shadow of the Crown
  • Author(s): Jeri Gilchrist
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): early 2000s

When Teira Palmer’s company relocates her from Utah to Denmark, she can’t wait to see the magical place she heard so many stories about as a child. She also wants to discover more about her grandfather, Soren Pedersen, who...

Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness

Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness
  • Author(s): Tilly Bagshawe, Sidney Sheldon
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Author Tillie Bagshawe brilliantly recaptured the late superstar author’s magic with Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the Game—and now she does it again with Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness. A classic tale of love and betrayal, and a struggle for...

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...

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
  • Author(s): Phillip Hoose
  • Location(s): Odense, Aalborg, Nyborg
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1940s, Second World War, World War II

At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation’s leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the...

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 Chestnut Man

The Chestnut Man
  • Author(s): Soren Svelstrup
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As the leaves fall, he’s coming for you. . . One October morning in a quiet suburb, the police make a terrible discovery. A young woman is found brutally murdered with one of her hands missing. Above her hangs...

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 End of the Road

The End of the Road
  • Author(s): Martin Henning
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern day

They say life is a journey, but what happens when you get to the end of the road? Terminally ill eminent Oxford professor, Des Kelly, develops a new technology for sustainable energy that can address environmental pollution and global...

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 Fire Pit (Faroes Novel 3)

The Fire Pit (Faroes Novel 3)
  • Location(s): The Faroe Islands, Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1970s

When long-buried skeletal remains are unearthed at an isolated farm on the island of Borðoy, Hjalti Hentze is charged with investigating the death. But as Hentze s investigation turns to the commune which occupied the farm in the 1970s,...

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