Danish Crime Fiction

INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES DEPT. Q In the heart-pounding next installment of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, a terrifying international investigation reveals the complex backstory of one of the department's own—the enigmatic Assad. The...

In The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adler-Olsen introduced Detective Carl Mørck, a deeply flawed, brilliant detective newly assigned to run Department Q, the home of Copenhagen’s coldest cases. The result wasn’t what Mørck—or readers—expected, but by the opening of Adler-Olsen’s...

INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES DEPT. Q New York Times bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen returns as Detective Carl Mørck and his Department Q team delve into a cold case that turns into more than they may be able to handle... In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused...

INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES DEPT. Q New York Times and internationally bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen delivers an exhilarating mystery in the Department Q series, featuring Detective Carl Mørck and his enigmatic assistants, Assad and Rose. In the middle of his usual hard-won...

INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES DEPT. Q A teenaged boy on the run propels Detective Carl Mørck into Department Q’s most sinister case yet in the fifth novel in Jussi Adler-Olsen's New York Times bestselling series. Fifteen-year-old Marco Jameson longs to become a Danish citizen and go to...

INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES DEPT. Q Detective Carl Mørck and his colleagues Assad and Rose must use all of their resources to uncover the horrifying truth in this heart-pounding Nordic thriller from the #1 international bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen. Carl Mørck holds in his hands...

This “must-read for fans of Nordic noir” (BookPage, starred review) follows detectives Korner and Werner as they search for a missing teenager and uncover the web of lies that has threatened his life—and may prevent him from ever being found. When fifteen-year-old Oscar Dreyer-Hoff...

An electrifying work of suspense from internationally bestselling author Katrine Engberg—heralded as a “stunning debut” by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs—follows two Copenhagen police detectives struggling to solve a shocking murder and stop a killer hell-bent on...

Detectives Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner race to solve a series of sordid murders linked to some of the most vulnerable patients in a Danish hospital in this sequel to the #1 international bestseller The Tenant that is “brimming with personality, eccentric characters, and plenty of mystery...

The Forgotten Girls The body of an unidentified woman has been discovered in a remote forest. A large, unique scar on one side of her face should make the identification easy, but nobody has reported her missing. Louise Rick, the new commander of the Missing Persons Department, waits four long...

From internationally bestselling author Katrine Engberg, the series that is a “gripping addition to the Scandinavian crime fiction pantheon” (Oprah Daily) comes to a stunning conclusion as Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner rush to untangle a long-simmering mystery before a brutal killer...

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES The author of The Chestnut Man and creator of the hit television series The Killing returns with a twisty, breakneck psychological thriller that takes an innocent children’s game to its most terrifying and diabolical extreme. Count to one, count to two...

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.

Freelance private detective Thomas "Ravn" Ravnsholdt is attempting to move on with his life following the murder of his girlfriend. But when wealthy business mogul Ferdinand Mesmer enlists his help finding his son, Ravn reluctantly takes on what he thinks will be a straightforward missing person case. A decade ago, Jacob Mesmer founded the mysterious and scandal-scarred religious sect "God's Chosen." Now he's vanished without a trace. As Ravn digs deeper, he discovers the previous private eye assigned to the case has also disappeared.

På det internationale Hotel Paradis i det sydlige rusland mødes politikere, forretningsmænd, gangstere og militærfolk fra hele verden for diskret at købe og sælge det tidligere Sovjetunionens værdier. Hertil ankommer den dansk-armenske Felix Terjosan Jensen for at indfri sin gæld til Saddam Hussein. "Den troskyldige russer" afslutter Leif Davidsens store russiske trilogi, der også omfatter "Den russiske sangerinde" og "Den sidste spion". Lydbogen er indlæst af Jesper Anthonsen.

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.

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.

En kvinde findes myrdet i en skov. Det virker som en ligetil forbrydelse, men det er kun begyndelsen. Snart begynder flere lig at dukke op, alle med tråde tilbage til USA's største seriemordere. Er det en ny seriemorder, der er på spil her, en såkaldt copycat? Og hvad er forbindelsen til indbruddet i den lokale velhaverfamilies villa?

Den unge kriminalbetjent Lacey Flint har altid været fascineret af myten om Jack the Ripper, Englands mest berygtede seriemorder, som i 1800-tallets London skamferede og myrdede en række prostituerede. Hun har dog aldrig selv arbejdet på en mordsag, før hun en aften gør det chokerende fund af en døende kvinde. Kvinden er blevet frygteligt lemlæstet med en kniv og udånder i Laceys arme. Da Lacey kort tid efter hører om et brev, som angiveligt er afsendt af morderen, løber det hende koldt ned ad ryggen.

Da Billy, en plaget ung mand, opsøger Cormoran Strike og fortæller om en forbrydelse, han så, da han var lille, efterlader det privatdetektiven dybt foruroliget. Strike og hans tidligere assistent Robin Ellacott - nu partner i detektivbureauet - forsøger at komme til bunds i Billys historie og føres ad kringlede veje gennem Londons gyder til de hemmelighedsfulde gange i parlamentet og et smukt, men dystert herresæde langt ude på landet. Sideløbende med denne labyrintiske efterforskning er Strikes eget liv langt fra enkelt.