Danish Detective

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 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...

David Hewson's The Killing 1 is the novelization of the first series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing. Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs . . . There is a bright monocular eye that follows, like a hunter after a wounded deer. It moves in a...

Med denne roman holdt Sherlock Holmes sit indtog i litteraturen sammen med sin - som fremtiden skulle vise - uundværlige følgesvend og Sancho Pancha, den brave Dr. Watson, hvis nærværelse var nødvendig, fordi Holmes givetvis ikke selv kunne optræde i fortællerens rolle, og det måtte anses for i høj grad tilrådeligt at lade så uhyggelige og dystre optrin som dem, bogen skildrer, berette af et øjenvidne. Desuden var Watson, med sin overordentlig sindige opfattelsesevne, velegnet til at danne en flatterende baggrund for mesterdetektivens opvisninger i lynsnar hjernevirksomhed.

Syv spændende fortællinger med Sherlock Holmes: Den forsvundne fodboldspiller, Visteria Lodge, Papæsken, Den røde cirkel, Bruce-Partington planerne, Den døende detektiv, Den forsvundne lady.

I denne klassiske Sherlock Holmes-fortælling modtager en ung dame hvert år en kostbar perle fra en ukendt afsender. Kan perlen have noget at gøre med hendes fars forsvinden nogle år tidligere? Og rummer det brev, der opfordrer hende til at møde på et angivet sted på et angivet tidspunkt, løsningen på disse mysterier? Hvem andre skulle hun henvende sig til end den berømte detektiv Sherlock Holmes! Kom med Sherlock Holmes og Doctor John Watson på en rejse i denne tidløse fortælling, som er beriget med et lydunivers af Jonas Kappel Lund.

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.

David Hewson's The Killing 2 is the novelization of the second series of the hit Danish crime drama, The Killing. It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left Copenhagen in disgrace for a remote outpost in northern Denmark. When the body...

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.

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.

På havnen i Ringkøbing kender de ham som "Russeren"; en fredelig ældre mand, som passer sin båd og drikker øl med mændene på kajen. Indtil han en dag bliver myrdet med en gift, som den russiske efterretningstjeneste er kendt for at bruge. Mordet på Russeren indleder "Forræderens børn", Leif Davidsens hæsblæsende spiondrama, der trækker tråde til Putins Rusland og byder på et gensyn med søskendeparret Tor og Laila, som vi mødte i Djævelen i hullet fra 2016.

Baskervilles hund er en Sherlock Holmes-gyser i mesterklassen. Læn dig tilbage og følg i Sherlock Holmes og hans trofaste partner Doctor John Watsons fodspor ind i fortællingen. Hvad er spøgelseshundens hemmelighed? Og hvad er forklaringen på det mystiske dødsfald på Dartmoor-heden? Bevæg dig dybt ind i fortællingen om den mystiske spøgelseshund med stemningssættende lyd af Jonas Kappel Lund.

Det amerikanske søskendepar China og Cherokee River har fået til opgave at transportere nogle vigtige tegninger fra Californien til Guernsey og ankommer til den engelske kanalø få dage før mordet. China bliver arresteret for mordet på Guy Brouard. Cherokee opsøger Chinas ungdomsveninde, fotografen Deborah St. James og hendes mand Simon, og beder om deres hjælp.

"De tre studenter og andre noveller": Den ensomme cyklist (The Solitary Cyclist); Prioratskolen (The Priory School); Sorte Peter (Black Peter); Charles Augustus Milverton (Charles Augustus Milverton); De tre studenter (The Three Students); Guld lorgnetterne (The Golden Pince-nez); Abbey Grange (The Abby Grange).

De nygifte beslutter at tilbringe hvedebrødsdagene i ro og mag fjernt fra venner og bekendte på en landejendom "et sted i England". Alt ånder fred og idyl – indtil de når deres bestemmelsessted. Her venter dem en række overraskelser, nogle komiske, andre mere ubehagelige. Og da de finder et lig i kælderen, begynder begivenhederne for alvor at tage fart. Peter Wimseys hvedebrødsdage udkom første gang i 1937 og foreligger nu på dansk i en sprogligt revideret oversættelse.