Danish Crime

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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.

En folkepensionist dræbes i en slumkaserne på Vesterbro i København. Næste dag bliver endnu en beboer i samme hus fundet skudt. Sådan begnder den første sag for Dan Turèlls navnløse journalistdetektiv. Sammen med politiinspektør Ehlers fra Halmtorvet begiver han sig ud i Vesterbros mørkeverden blandt ludere og narkomaner, pushere og voldsmænd for at opklare de mystiske mord. Det bliver en farlig - og forgæves - jagt på underverdenens kyniske og usynlige bagmænd.

When a remote country house near Trige in East Jutland becomes the scene of a deadly crime, Detective Roland Benito is faced with a case that turns out to be much more than an ordinary home robbery. Meanwhile, journalist Anne Larsen has been laid off and soon after finds herself embarking on a haunting investigation of her own. As homeless people mysteriously disappear from the streets, she uncovers a dark connection that leads her back to the Viking Age. Can the cases be cracked before it's too late?

En kaiken? Hvad er det? Det er den dolk, samuraikvinder brugte til at begå selvmord. De skar halsen over på sig selv. Oliver Passan, Kriminalpolitiet i Paris, elsker alt der er japansk, ikke mindst sin smukke kone, som han har to sønner med. Nu har hustruen Nanoko imidlertid bedt om skilsmisse.

En dag bryder nogen ind i Kamille Schwerins atelier, smadrer et helt års produktion af skulpturer og myrder hendes 83-årige mor. Politiet har en mistanke om, at det i virkeligheden var Kamille selv, morderen var ude efter, og da hun udsættes for flere mordforsøg og modtager en række trusselsbreve, bliver mistanken til vished. Men månederne går, uden at den skyldige bliver pågrebet. Året efter skal privatdetektiven Dan Sommerdahl medvirke i det samme realityshow som Kamille Schwerin.

To danske piger forsvinder sporløst på englandsbåden i 1985. Årtier senere dukker et foto af dem op i en kuffert hos en antikvitetshandler i kystbyen Brine. Den danske journalist Nora Sand, som arbejder for bladet Globalt i London, rodes tilfaeldigt ind i en gammel sag med en engelsk massemorder, der afsoner livstid i det berygtede faengsel Wolf Hall. De bestialske mord viser sig at traekke spor tilbage til Danmark, og snart frygter Nora for sit eget liv.

Da familien Vehkasalos teenagedatter Sinikka forsvinder, går Kimmo Joentaa fra det finske politi i gang med sin efterforskning op opdager, at sagen til forveksling ligner en treogtredive år gammel sag om teenageren Pia Lehtinen, som blev voldtaget, myrdet og smidt i en sø. Joentaa beder sin nyligt pensionerede kollega Antsi Ketola om hjælp, for den gamle sag var Ketolas, og selv om den aldrig blev opklaret, kan sporene måske kaste lys over den nye forbrydelse.

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.

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.

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.

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.

De var top og bund i Hells Angels - den ene kendt fra medierne som Stein Baggers livvagt, i færd med at skrive en bog om sit liv, den anden degraderet til prøvemedlem i AK81, idømt druk- og stofforbud på ubestemt tid. Men de var brødre. Indtil den ene hoppede af. I dag er ingen af dem længere med i Hells Angels. Den ene er gået til Bandidos. Den anden er gået til politiet og lever i et vidnebeskyttelsesprogram.

Ondskaben kender ingen grænser. Den erfarne privatopdager Ravn får sin mest uhyggelige sag til dato, da en klient beder ham finde en gammel skolekammerat, som han ikke har haft kontakt med i 17 år. En række bestialske overfald på kvinder, der ryster København har givet klienten mistanke om, at hans skolekammerat står bag, fordi overfaldene minder om det, som han og kammeraten begik på en lille pige tilbage i 1993, og som endte fatalt.

Jazzguitaristen Carsten Friis - en gammel ven af Dan Turèlls journalist-detektiv - synker død om under en sommer-koncert på Kultorvet i København. Politiets undersøgelse viser, at Carsten er død af en dosis forgiftet morfin, og sammen med politiinspektør Ehlers går journalisten i gang med at efterforske de begivenheder, der har ført til ungdomsvennens død. Det bliver lange, intense døgn i den indre bys nattemiljø, hvor afsløringer af kynisk narkohandel blandes med minder om et liv i jazzmusikkens altfortærende favntag.

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.

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.

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.

"Fascinerende og imponerende velskrevet ... En gruopvækkende rundtur i mørket og forvirringen i de inderste afkroge af vores bevidsthed." - New York Times "En sindssygt spændende og nervepirrende pageturner..." - Litteratursiden Det er lige før nytår. 20-årige Kenji er guide i Tokyos natteliv og bliver hyret af Frank, en overvægtig amerikansk turist, som bare vil se det hele.

Blekingegadebanden fortsætter op gennem firserne med en stribe danmarkshistorisk store røverier som julekuppet i Daells Varehus og rullestolsrøveriet i Herlev. I samme periode overvåges gruppens medlemmer af efterretningstjenesten. Men hvorfor bliver de aldrig afsløret? I 1983 er kriminalpolitiet tæt på at opklare gruppens røveri mod en pengetransport i Lyngby. Men i al diskretion bliver efterforskningen stoppet fra højeste sted i Justitsministeriet.