Danish Fiction Mystery

Hannah has felt as bitter as November in Minnesota since Ross vanished without a trace and left their marriage in limbo. Still, she throws herself into a baking frenzy for the sake of pumpkin pie and Thanksgiving-themed treats while endless holiday orders pour into The Cookie Jar. Hannah even introduces a raspberry Danish pastry to the menu, and P.K., her husband's assistant at KCOW-TV, will be one of the first to sample it. But instead of taking a bite, P.K., who is driving Ross's car and using his desk at work, is murdered. Was someone plotting against P.K. all along or did Ross dodge a deadly dose of sweet revenge?

Allison Sweet, 34, a sous chef in Los Angeles, has had it up to here with demeaning customers, her demanding boss, and her failed love life. After a shocking incident, she realizes the time has come to start life fresh and follow her lifelong dream of moving to a small town and opening a bakery of her own.

When Lexy Baker lands a high paying catering job that allows her to buy some much needed kitchen equipment, she's excited that things are going so well...until she stumbles over the body of the bride-to-be. Suddenly Lexy finds herself in a race against time to find the killer. Aided by four iPad toting amateur detective grandmas, her best friend, and her little dog Sprinkles, Lexy finds the suspect list growing at every turn. To make matters worse, the investigation is headed up by her hunky neighbor.

"Er du lykkelig i dit liv?". Det er det sidste spørgsmål, Jason Dessen hører, inden han mister bevidstheden. Inden han vågner fastspændt, omringet af folk i sikkerhedsdragter. Inden en fremmed bøjer sig over ham og siger: "Velkommen tilbage". Jason er vågnet i en verden, han ikke kan genkende. Hans kone er ikke hans kone. Hans søn er aldrig blevet født. Og han er ikke længere fysiklærer, men et hyldet geni, der har opnået noget utroligt. Noget alle troede var umuligt. Er det denne verden eller den anden, som er en drøm?

When a college girl is found dead, the investigation leaves a distraught mother in a desperate quest to find out what happened. Dissatisfied with the conclusion drawn by police, she continues to hunt for the truth behind her daughter's untimely death.

Højintens og humoristisk krimi om farlige faellesskaber og sektmiljøer Da deres laerer myrdes, og klassens enspaender Storm forsvinder, beslutter redaktionen på skolebladet Kapow at undersøge sagen. Fifi, Walle, Ola og My følger sporene i retning af den sektlignende bevaegelse MindCraft, som med omstridte metoder driver kostskoler for utilpassede unge. Snart suges de fire ind i en verden af frygt, farlige faellesskaber og hemmelige ordener for at redde deres ven - hvis han da vil reddes.

It was a real Jack in the box. Only this box was a UPS delivery to crime novelist Helena Magnusson, and the Jack was Jack Connors–her husband; or at least his head. The rest of him was probably in the East River somewhere.

On her 60th birthday, a woman commits suicide. 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. It's a tragedy to be sure, but the cause of death seems to be clear. But his superior, Marcus Jacobsen, is convinced that this is not in fact a suicide, but a murder related to an unsolved case that has been plaguing him since 1988. At Marcus' behest, Carl and the Department Q gang—Rose, Assad, and Gordon—reluctantly begin to investigate.

When Karl and Christen Redfern were brutally murdered in their apartment in the Bronx, a lot of things were never explained, like why he was stabbed only twice, with clinical precision, but she was stabbed 20 times in the heart, in a crazed frenzy; like what happened to their Chevy Impala, and why Christen’s sister, Ingrid, had never reported it missing. But the biggest mystery of all was perhaps where Karl and Christen’s daughter Amy had disappeared to, along with her boyfriend, Charlie, on the very night of her parents’ murder.

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.

Fire top-spaendende fortaellinger om agent 007 i Hendes Majestaets hemmelige tjeneste - James Bond. Fra Jamaica til Berlin, fra London til New York. Behovet for James Bonds assistance er verdensomspaendende. Bond tager endnu en gang kampen op med alt fra kriminelle gangstere til russiske agenter - og kampen står ofte mellem liv og død.

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.

Fire kvinder samles til krebsegilde. De mødte hinanden i slutningen af 1990'erne, da de sang i det samme kor. Derefter tog livet dem i forskellige retninger, men hvert år i august mødes de. Det bliver endnu våd aften med krebs, snaps og vin, men da det bliver morgen, vågner kun to kvinder op i det gamle hus. Kriminalassistent Anna Glad har taget orlov for at passe sin søn, mens hendes mand Tomas arbejder i døgndrift. Og det går hurtigt op for hende, at alle fire kvinder til krebsegildet havde noget at skjule.

En alvorligt såret kvinde bringes til skadestuen. Kvinden er blevet ramt af en bil, men eftersom hun er nøgen og har været udsat for brutal vold, står det hurtigt klart, at hun har været offer for en person med et yderst forskruet sind. Tre år tidligere flyttede restmediciner Sara Linton til Atlanta i håb om at lade sine tragiske fortid bag sig. Nu arbejder hun som læge og forsøger samtidig at få sit liv tilbage på rette spor. Men da den brutalt sårede kvinde bringes ind på skadestuen, bliver Sara ufrivilligt trukket tilbage til den verden af vold og mord, som hun havde forladt.

When London Rose, 33, is proposed to by her longtime boyfriend, she realizes she is facing a stable, predictable, predetermined (and passionless) life. She freaks out and runs the other way - accepting instead a job across the Atlantic, as a tour guide on a high-end European cruise line that travels through a country a day. London is searching for a more romantic, unscripted, and exciting life that she feels sure exists out there somewhere.

With a family missing, and after four years off the police force, Chase Grant finds himself back in the midst of a criminal investigation. But as he teams up with the FBI and the US Marshals working this high-profile case, Grant will be forced to confront a past that he thought he was prepared to deal with. But if he can't overcome his memories, then it could mean the end of a missing family.

"Ondskabens høst" er tredje bind i den anmelderroste serie om privatdetektiven Cormoran Strike og hans kvikke assistent Robin Ellacott. En djævelsk velkonstrueret kriminalroman med stadig nye forviklinger og samtidig en medrivende historie om en mand og en kvinde, der står ved en skillevej i deres personlige og professionelle liv.

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.

ZOMBIE er Jørgen Leths vilde og blodige, foruroligende og deliriske, afklarede og nøgterne digte fra tærsklen mellem livet og døden. Her er blodige munde, en telefon ringer i det fjerne, zombier lever deres tågede horrorliv, og et jeg mærker sin egen forsvinden. Og det gør ikke noget, at det gør lidt ondt.

En morgenfrisk vinderbader får sig en ubehagelig overraskelse, da han tager sine første svømmetag i en våge og støder på liget af en kvinde. Den afdøde er Boel Westman, fotolærer på den nærtliggende højskole, hvor hun også selv var elev 30 år tidligere, dengang det var en skole for utilpassede unge. Hendes død ligner umiddelbart en tragisk ulykke, men det foruroligende indhold af en bankboks peger mod mørklagte forbrydelser og mod ugerninger, der synes at gentage sig. Overalt omkring skolen finder mystiske hændelser sted, og flere er spundet ind i trådene fra fortiden end som så.