Agnete Friis, trans. from the Danish by Lindy Falk van Rooyen. Soho Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61695-602-8
Ella Nygaard, the heroine of this devastating solo debut from Danish author Friis (coauthor of The Boy in the Suitcase and three other Nina Borg novels), was seven when her father allegedly murdered her mother. Some believe that Ella was a witness,...
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Agnete Friis. trans. from the Danish by Sinéad Quirke Køngerskov, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61695-995-1
One evening in Copenhagen, architect Jacob Nielson, the embittered, alcohol-fueled, middle-aged narrator of this bleak standalone from bestseller Friis (the Nina Borg series with Lena Kaaberbøl), shows up at the building where his ex-wife, Kirsten,...
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Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis, trans. from the Danish by Lene Kaaberbøl. Soho Crime, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56947-981-0
In this riveting first in a new Danish crime series, hard-working Copenhagen nurse Nina Borg can’t say no to nursing school friend Karin’s cryptic request to pick up a package at the train station. There, stuffed in a suitcase inside a locker, Nina...
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Lene Kaaberb%C3%B8l and Agnete Friis, trans. from the Danish by Tara Chace. Soho Crime, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61695-170-2
In this thrilling follow-up to Kaaberbøl and Friis's 2011 debut, The Boy in the Suitcase, Copenhagen Red Cross nurse Nina Borg sets out to assist sick children among the Hungarian Roma living in nearby Valby, even though she has promised her...
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Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis, trans. from the Danish by Elisabeth Dyssegaard. Soho Crime, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-61695-304-1
Artfully drawn characters who are a pleasure to know populate Kaaberbøl and Friis’s excellent third thriller featuring nurse Nina Borg (after 2013’s Invisible Murder). At a Red Cross crisis center in Copenhagen known as Coal-House Camp, Nina bonds...
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Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis, trans. from the Danish by Elisabeth Dyssegaard. Soho Crime, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61695-528-1
At the start of Danish authors Kaaberbøl and Friis’s uneven fourth and final thriller featuring Red Cross nurse Nina Borg (after 2013’s Death of a Nightingale), an assailant apologizes after hitting Nina with a tire iron in a shopping mall parking...
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Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis, read by Katherine Kellgren. AudioGO, unabridged, seven CDs, 9 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-60998-658-2
Kaaberbol and Friis’s latest installment in the bestselling Nina Borg series finds Nina—a nurse, mother, and wife—working with women and child refugees. One day she receives a call from an estranged friend named Karin who asks her to pick up a...
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