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The German Girl

The German Girl
  • Author(s): Lily Graham
  • Location(s): Hamburg, Helsingør, Malmö
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary - Looking back to WWII

‘Our parents were taken. And if we go home, the Nazis will take us too…’ Hamburg 1938. Fifteen-year-old Asta is hurrying home from school with her twin brother Jurgen. The mood in the city is tense – synagogues have...

My Name is Jensen

My Name is Jensen
  • Author(s): Heidi Amsinck
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Guilty. One word on a beggar’s cardboard sign. And now he is dead, stabbed in a wintry Copenhagen street, the second homeless victim in as many weeks. Dagbladet reporter Jensen, stumbling across the body on her way to work, calls her...

The Year of Living Danishly

The Year of Living Danishly
  • Author(s): Helen Russell
  • Location(s): Jutland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn’t Disneyland, but Denmark, a land often thought of by...

The Preacher

The Preacher
  • Author(s): Sander Jakobsen
  • Location(s): Aarhus
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

An astonishingly clever, gripping debut with a killer hook, by an exciting new Danish talent Thorkild Christensen stares down at his murdered wife, Karen, and realises he knows almost nothing about her. How did she fill her days? Where...

All I Want for Christmas

All I Want for Christmas
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three first dates and an art-world mystery – it’s going to be a busy Christmas for Darcy. All I Want for Christmas is the Sunday Times bestselling cosy winter romance from Karen Swan, author of Christmas By Candlelight. Can...

Blue Blood

Blue Blood
  • Author(s): Sara Blaedel
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In an idyllic neighbourhood of Copenhagen, a young woman, Susanne Hansson, is discovered in her apartment bound and gagged, the victim of an extraordinarily brutal rape attack. Detective Inspector Louise Rick soon learns that Susanne met the rapist on...

Copenhagen Noir

Copenhagen Noir
  • Author(s): Bo Tao Michaelis
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

An anthology of stories under the editorship of Bo Tao Michaelis set in Copenhagen

Last Train to Helsingor

Last Train to Helsingor
  • Author(s): Heidi Amsinck
  • Location(s): Denmark, Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Noir
  • Era(s): Modern

“Copenhagen is a mysterious city where strange and sinister things often happen. Menacing and at times darkly humorous there are echoes of Roald Dahl and Daphne du Maurier in these stories, many of which have been specially commissioned for...

Mercy

Mercy
  • Author(s): Jussi Adler-Olsen
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Copenhagen detective Carl Mørck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. Everyone says she’s dead. Everyone says it’s a waste of...

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow
  • Author(s): Peter Høeg
  • Location(s): Copenhagen, Greenland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

An exciting and intricate plot, at the centre Smilla Jasperson is a well drawn character. A complex plot, with a tremendous feeling of ice and snow.

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