Showing results by author "Agnete Friis"

Sixteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho crime authors! This captivating collection of short mysteries and crime capers - which features New York Times best-selling authors, Crime Writers Association Gold and Diamond Dagger winners, and Edgar Award nominees - contains laughs aplenty, the most hardboiled of holiday noir, and heartwarming reminders of the spirit of the season.

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is trying to live a quiet life. The last thing her husband wants is for her to go running off on another dangerous mission to help illegal refugees. But when Nina's estranged friend, Karin, leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, and begs her to take care of its contents, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous case yet.

In this feverishly anticipated follow-up to 2011’s critically acclaimed The Boy in the Suitcase, Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg doesn’t realize she is putting life and family on the line when she tries to treat a group of sick Hungarian gypsies who are living illegally in a Copenhagen garage. Nina has unwittingly thrown herself into a deadly nest of the unscrupulous and the desperate, and what is at stake is much more terrifying than anyone had realized.

Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian woman who has been arrested for murdering her Danish fiancé, escapes police custody on her way to an interrogation in Copenhagen's police headquarters. It isn't the first time Natasha has lost a partner to violent ends: her first husband was also murdered three years earlier, in Kiev, and in the same manner, his hands broken. At the same time, someone tries to abduct Natasha's eight-year-old daughter from the Red Cross center that has been caring for her while her mother, an illegal immigrant, was in jail.

Ella Nygaard, 27, has been a ward of the state since she was seven years old, the night her father murdered her mother. She doesn't remember anything about that night or her childhood before it - but her body remembers. The PTSD-induced panic attacks she now suffers incapacitate her for hours - sometimes days - at a time and leave her physically and psychically drained.

Hun lever en stor del af sit liv i en verden andre danskere sjældent ser, selv om den er lige omkring os hele tiden. Det er en verden hvor afpresning, menneskehandel, mishandling og unødvendig død er hverdag; en verden hvor børn forsvinder hver eneste dag uden at nogen stiller spørgsmål. Men Nina er ikke god til at lukke øjnene. Da hun finder drengen i kufferten, forsøger hun at finde ud af hvem han er, og hvor han kommer fra. Hun har bestemt sig for at det her barn ikke får lov til bare at forsvinde.

William går i niende, spiller fodbold med sine venner og drømmer om at kysse Laura, da en ny dreng i klassen truer med at smadre hans liv. For Victor kan tilsyneladende alt. Snart er Williams plads på førsteholdet truet, og det samme gælder forholdet til Laura og bedstevennen Agger. William er rasende, men så får han hjælp fra en uventet kant. Efter et kraftigt regnvejr finder han en åben kiste på kirkegården, og han tager en funklende ørering fra den døde. Den viser sig at forbinde ham med kræfter, han ikke vidste fandtes.

On her way home from the shops, Nina Borg is attacked. 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. For the first time, she's the primary target of a hit, and it slowly dawns on her that this case is connected to a surprising and dangerous friendship among three young men from Manila.

Ella Nygaard has been a ward of the state since she was seven years old, the night her father murdered her mother. She doesn't remember anything about that night but the panic attacks she suffers incapacitate her for days. When Ella is admitted to a psych ward, her son, Alex, is placed with a foster family. In desperation, Ella kidnaps Alex and flees to the seaside town in Denmark where she was born - and is forced to confront her childhood demons.