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22) The Marco effect
Author
Series
Department Q volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times and internationally bestselling author returns with an astonishing and sinister case for Department Q All fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson wants is to become a Danish citizen and go to school like a normal teenager. But his uncle Zola rules his former gypsy clan with an iron fist. Revered as a god and feared as a devil, Zola forces the children of the clan to beg and steal for his personal gain. When Marco discovers a dead...
23) Into the flames
Author
Series
Young underground volume 3
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Their work delivering newspapers for the Danish underground lands twins Peter and Elise in a Nazi prison where they experience firsthand the importance of faith.
24) Copenhagen noir
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of crime and noir stories set in Copenhagen.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan receives the first in a series of cryptic and unsettling letters from a woman named Anna Kiel. Wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a young lawyer three years earlier, Anna hasn't been seen by anyone since she left the crime scene covered in blood. While the letters keep coming, they hint at a connection between Anna and Heloise. As Heloise starts digging deeper, she realizes that to tell Anna's story she...
26) Hitler's canary
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Bamse and his Jewish friend Anton participate in the Danish Resistance during World War II.
27) The tenant
Author
Series
Korner and Werner mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who's a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a...
28) The harbor
Author
Series
Korner and Werner mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Copenhagen-based police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are on a new case--their deadliest yet--in the newest thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Tenant and The Butterfly House"--
When fifteen-year-old Oscar Dreyer-Hoff disappears, the police assume he's simply a runaway--a typically overlooked middle child doing what teenagers do all around the world. But his frantic family is certain that something terrible has...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A compelling new crime thriller featuring Copenhagen-based police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner, who work to solve a series of sordid murders that have roots in the care of vulnerable hospital patients and at-risk children -- and to expose a murderer who specializes in cold, cold blood..."--
Six days ago a paperboy on his route in central Copenhagen stumbled upon the naked body of a dead woman, lying in a fountain with arms marked with...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A story of bravery, betrayal, and redemption-from the winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Chicago, 2018: Ole Henryks, a popular restauranteur, is set to be honored by the Danish/American Association for his many civic and charitable contributions. Frequently appearing on local TV, he is well known for his actions in Nazi-occupied Denmark during World War II-most consider him a hero. Britta Stein, however, does not. The ninety-year-old Chicago...
Author
Series
Department Q volume 9
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On her sixtieth birthday, a woman takes her own life. When the case lands on Detective Carl Mørck's desk, he can't imagine what this has to do with Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division, since the cause of death seems apparent. However, his superior, Marcus Jacobsen, is convinced that this suicide is related to an unsolved case that has been plaguing him since 1988. At Marcus's behest, Carl and the Department Q gang - Rose, Assad, and Gordon...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Protecting the young daughter of an illegal immigrant who has escaped police custody in the aftermath of a brutal murder, Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg struggles with a belief in the woman's innocence as she learns more about her violent past.
Author
Series
Copenhagen quartet volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned for teaching political poetry to his students, Bernardo Greene has been tortured for months in Pinochet's Chile when he is visited by two angels who promise that he will survive to experience beauty and love once again. Months later, in Copenhagen, where he has come for treatment, the Chilean exile befriends Michela Ibsen, herself a survivor of domestic abuse.
37) Srsly Hamlet
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"William Shakespeare's tragedy told in the style of texts, tweets, and status posts"--Provided by publisher.
38) Lisa's war
Author
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Lisa and other teenage Jews become involved in an underground resistance movement during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Agnete Friis comes the chilling story of a young mother who will do whatever it takes to protect her son. Ella Nygaard, 27, has been a ward of the state since she was seven years old, the night her father murdered her mother. She doesn't remember anything about that night or her childhood before it--but her body remembers. The PTSD-induced panic attacks she now suffers incapacitate her for hours--sometimes days--at...
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