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42) Doghead
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Asger is called home to Denmark to visit as his grandmother is dying. As she grows weaker, she tells him the true (or possibly true) stories of his rogue of a grandfather, the misdeeds of his father and cousins, and sets him on a treasure hunt, all haunted by his childhood vision of the Doghead.
43) Lucky Per
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 390
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Lucky Per is ... the ambitious son of a clergyman who rejects his faith and flees his restricted life in the Danish countryside for the capital city. Per is a gifted young man who ...becomes obsessed with a grand engineering scheme that he believes will reshape both Denmark's landscape and its minor place in the world; eventually, both his personal and his career ambitions come to grief."--
Author
Series
Nina Borg mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"On her way home from a grocery shopping trip, Nina Borg is attacked from behind in a parking lot. Dazed and half-conscious, she hears her assailant ask for her forgiveness. Only later does she understand that this isn't for what he's just done, but for what he plans to do to. As a Red Cross nurse, Nina typically finds herself fighting for others' lives, not her own. For the first time, she's the primary target of a hit, and it slowly dawns on her...
Author
Series
Louise Rick and Camilla Lind novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Sara Blaedel, author of the #1 international bestseller The Forgotten Girls--which was roundly praised as "gripping" with "uncompromising realism" (Washington Post) and "tautly suspenseful" (BookPage)--returns with the thrilling next book in her series featuring police investigator Louise Rick. THE KILLING FORESTFollowing an extended leave, Louise Rick returns to work at the Special Search Agency, an elite unit of the National Police Department....
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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...
47) Winterfrost
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Left in charge of her home and infant sibling when her parents are called away at Christmastime, Bettina disregards a family custom about leaving out rice pudding for the nisse, who make their magic known when the baby disappears.
"Christmas has come, and with it a sparkling white winterfrost over the countryside. But twelve-year-old Bettina's parents have been called away unexpectedly, leaving her in charge of the house, the farm, and baby Pia....
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