Danish Crime Fiction

It’s been more than 20 years since Olof Hagström left home. Returning to his family’s house, he knows instantly that something is amiss. The front door key, hidden under a familiar stone, is still there. Inside, there’s a panicked dog, a terrible stench, water pooling on the floor: The father Olaf has not seen or spoken to in decades is dead in the bathroom shower.

Criminal investigator Thomas Ravnsholdt—better known as Ravn—is on leave from Copenhagen’s special crime unit following the brutal murder of his wife. Wracked with guilt over her death, Ravn has withdrawn to a ramshackle houseboat with only his grumpy Old English Bulldog to keep him company. But his self-imposed exile ends when a friend asks him for help finding a young woman who disappeared without a trace a few years earlier. The investigation brings Ravn back to his former workplace and the underworld he’d hoped to leave behind.

Suspended from his job, criminal investigator Thomas "Ravn" Ravnsholdt lives a lonely, dissolute existence—until he crosses paths with a woman desperate for help locating her missing brother. Driven to embezzlement, the man has vanished without a trace on a visit to Berlin. Ravn's investigation takes a chilling turn when he uncovers a pattern of similar disappearances involving single men in the German capital. As the pieces of this puzzle start to fall into place, Ravn finds himself entangled in a web of darkness and deception that dates back to the era of the Stasi.

Emma Frost inherits a house on Fanoe Island when her grandmother dies. She decides to move there with her family, much to her teenage daughter's regret. One morning a wealthy older woman living in her street is found murdered and soon Emma finds herself wrapped in a mystery uncovering the island's dark secrets reaching into her own family.

Den fattige student Rodion Raskolnikov besættes af ideen om at komme ud af sin og familiens fortvivlede situation ved at myrde en gammel, uhæderlig og grådig pantelånerske og bemægtige sig hendes gemte formue, så han kan fuldende studierne og virke til gavn for samfundet. Han er påvirket af de herskende nihilistiske teorier, hvor store ånder og stærke karakterer som han selv ikke er underlagt gængs lov og moral, når det gælder om at fremme ideale mål.

12-årige Naomi Bowes’ liv ændres brat den nat, hun opdager sin fars uhyggelige hemmelighed. Mange år senere, nu voksen og en succesfuld fotograf med et nyt efternavn, flytter Naomi til den idylliske by Sunrise Cove. Hun ser frem til ensomheden og muligheden for at starte forfra et sted, hvor hun ikke er kendt som datter af en seriemorder. Langsomt bliver byen hendes hjem og byens indbyggere hendes venner - selvom den vedholdende Xander Keaton gør det klart, at han gerne vil være mere end det.

Den 42-årige og livsuduelige gymnasielærer Markus får nyt indhold i tilværelsen, da han begynder at studere andre folks privatliv gennem deres vinduer. Denne tilbøjelighed medfører imidlertid, at han ufrivilligt overværer mordet på en yngre, fraskilt dame i huset overfor, og snart bliver han viklet ind i en uoverskuelig intrige, der på ny lader ham tage sit liv op til overvejelse.

"Jeg var for sent på den. Alle og enhver ville altid være for sent på den for hende. Hun lå i det røde mudder på hjørnet af Lotlegi Gade og Moshoete Gade i Soweto. Det havde haglet usædvanligt meget fra morgenstunden. Det hele var mudret, og det røde mudder klistrede sig til alt og alle. På trods af det var hun overhovedet ikke mudret til, men lå som en skrøbelig porcelænsdukke. Hvad der var sket, siden hun var endt her, vidste jeg ikke. Jeg kunne kun gætte. Jeg kunne intet gøre for hende, det havde jeg aldrig kunnet.

Called to the scene of a murder outside Trige, Roland Benito assumes it's a case of petty criminals who made a gruesome mistake. After all, home robberies have been plaguing all of East Jutland for years. But it soon becomes clear that the men who beat Albert Hovgaard to death inside his country estate were no ordinary thieves. Meanwhile, journalist Anne Larsen has been out of work since the financial crisis shuttered the Daily News. But now an unwelcome visit from the past has her investigating a series of missing homeless people.

When Denmark’s erstwhile Minister of Justice and Foreign Secretary dies suddenly from what appears to be a heart attack, down-on-his-luck journalist Ulrik Torp finds himself drawn into the case. Relegated to writing obituaries for a local paper, Torp is tasked with crafting the notice of the man’s untimely death—and then a former Member of Parliament expires under similarly suspicious circumstances. But who may have killed these two political archrivals, and why?

In the swamp outside a small Danish village, two young boys make a gruesome discovery. Just below the surface of the water floats a corpse—now reduced to skin and bones. Twenty-five years ago, someone murdered this unfortunate woman. Now, Detective Inspector Roland Benito and his colleagues must use what scant evidence they have to identify the victim and track down her killer.

Old secrets. Missing teenagers. In this small island town, something horrifying is afoot. A mysterious young girl seems to bring out powerful abilities in Emma's special-needs son. As she combs her small Danish island for clues about both mysteries, she realizes the killer and the strange girl are somehow connected. Before the killer strikes again, Emma must risk it all to uncover the frightening truth about what lies beneath her isolated island home.

Set in the Danish coastal town of Karrebaeksminde, the story follows journalist Rebekka Franck, who returns to her hometown with her six-year-old daughter. She is trying to escape her ex-husband and start a new life for her and her daughter when the sleepy small town experiences a murder. One of the kingdom's wealthiest men is brutally murdered in his summer residence in Karrebaeksminde.

Ditte har kun ét mål med livet: at blive optaget på Det Kongelige Kunstakademi. Overbevist om at der venter hende en magisk tilværelse i paradis på Kongens Nytorv, satser hun nu alt på sit tredje forsøg på at blive optaget på den prestigiøse uddannelse, der har udklækket nogle af danmarkshistoriens største kunstnere.

Thriller i højt tempo. Jule er mange ting. Hemmelig agent, atlet og social kamæleon. Imogen er rigmandsdatter, forældreløs og svindler. Et intenst venskab. Folk, der forsvinder. Et mord eller to. Forhold, der går i vasken.

Den lille studiekreds af amatørforfattere i Midsomer Worthy har inviteret den berømte forfatter, Max Jennings, til at tale ved et af deres møder. De mere realistiske af medlemmerne ved godt af det nok var lidt vel ambitiøst, men de forstod ikke hvorfor forfatterkredsens sekretær, Gerald Hadleigh, modsatte sig invitationene så lidenskabeligt. Til alles forbløffelse siger Jennings ja, og få timer efter mødet er slut, er Hadleigh myrdet.

Han er den farligste seriemorder, FBI nogensinde har fanget. Og han er lige flygtet fra fængslet. De mødtes første gang på universitetet, hvor de var værelseskammerater. To af de dygtigste studerende, der nogensinde havde taget afgangseksamen fra det psykologiske fakultet på Stanford University. Robert Hunter blev senere leder af LAPD’s Ultravoldsenhed. Lucien Folter blev den farligste og mest aktive seriemorder i landets historie.

Under en rutinemæssig obduktion af, hvad der ligner et offer for en flugtbilist, opdager den ledende retsmediciner på Los Angeles’ Retsmedicinske Institut, doktor Carolyn Hove, nogle mystiske uoverensstemmelser. Hun kontakter derfor kriminalassistent Robert Hunter fra LAPD‘s Ultravoldsenhed og beder om hjælp. Ikke nok med, at doktor Hove har opdaget, at døden ikke skyldtes påkørslen – hun har også fundet tegn på, at offeret blev udsat for intens tortur, inden han døde.

De lettere absurde begivenheder i Melede udvikler sig, da den ækle nabo Henning under mordforsøg på Molly Gewissenheri får et rødbedeglasskår i øjet og hjernen.

Natasha Bell was a juvenile delinquent. Years later, she harbors a dark secret from her youth. She never expects to work at a place like the Trevino Center for Health and Wellness, a secluded rehabilitation hospital that treats the nation’s richest patients. But when patients mysteriously die, leaving their fortunes to the elusive Trevino family, Natasha must confront her past and uncover the scam inside the Center.