"On the first Tuesday in October, Rosa Hartung is returning to her job as minister for social affairs following a year's leave of absence--granted after the dramatic disappearance of her twelve-year-old daughter. Linus Bekker, a mentally ill young man, confessed to her killing, but is unable to remember where he buried the various parts of her dismembered corpse, leaving Rosa with no choice but to try to move on without closure. The same day Rosa...

An ice melt reveals the body of a girl half-naked and tied up, buried hundreds of miles from any signs of life. She has lain alone, hidden in an ice cap in Greenland's arctic circle, for twenty-five years. When Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is flown in to investigate this horrific murder, it triggers a dark memory-- he realizes this was not the killer's only victim. Disturbing details about the moral standing of some of Denmark's...

When a famous Danish gender activist and owner of Copenhagens first gender-neutral children's nursery is found murdered in Malmö, Saga is assigned to the case, together with a new colleague. The murder sparks the beginning of a series of spectacular crimes reaching back into Saga's own past.

When a famous Danish gender activist and owner of Copenhagens first gender-neutral children's nursery is found murdered in Malm,̲ Saga is assigned to the case, together with a new colleague. The murder sparks the beginning of a series of spectacular crimes reaching back into Saga's own past.

"Already widowed by the age of forty, Ilka Nichols Jensen, a school portrait photographer, leads a modest, regimented, and uneventful life in Copenhagen. Until unexpected news rocks her quiet existence, her father--who walked out suddenly and inexplicably on the family more than three decades ago--has died. And he's left her something in his will, his funeral home. In Racine, Wisconsin. Clinging to this last shred of communication from the father...

"#1 internationally bestselling author Sara Blaedel, Denmark's "Queen of Crime," returns with her new thriller featuring Danish police investigator Louise Rick"--

A woman is found murdered in the middle of the Oresund Bridge, on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Police from both countries are called to the scene, and what looks like one murder turns out to be two. It's a spectacular double murder: the bodies have been brutally cut in half at the waist and put together to form a single corpse. It's also just the beginning of a wave of violence the likes of which no one has ever seen before.

DCI Dan Sommerdahl investigates murders in a lovely Danish coastal town with his best friend, Detective Flemming Torp, and his wife, Marianne, a criminal technician. But Dan's years of devotion to the job have hurt his marriage, and with Marianne wanting a divorce, Dan discovers his rival for her affections is none other than his best friend. And they all must still work together to solve crimes.

Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian woman who has been arrested for murdering her Danish fiance, escapes police custody. Meanwhile, someone tries to abduct Natasha's eight-year-old daughter from a Red Cross center. Nurse Nina Borg has been following Natasha's case for several years and just can't see the young mother as a vicious killer. But in her effort to protect Natasha's daughter and find the truth, Nina realizes there is much she doesn't know about...

Halfdan and his master, Winston the Illuminator, are guests in a monastery when they're awakened in the middle of the night and asked to solve a crime. A monk praying in the church has been brutally murdered, and his severed hand offers the first clue of a motive. As they investigate who could have committed such a heinous atrocity, and why, Halfdan and Winston must negotiate bitter rivalries within the monastery's hierarchy, a sensitive class structure,...