Category Archives: Denmark

Review: DEATH OF A NIGHTINGALE by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis

Posted on February 22, 2015 by bernadetteinoz

As with its two predecessors, DEATH OF A NIGHTINGALE once again takes readers into the world of some of Europe’s most marginalised and damaged souls. In this instance focus is on a Ukrainian woman, Natasha Doroshenko, who has been convicted … Continue reading →

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Review: INVISIBLE MURDER by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis

Posted on January 8, 2014 by bernadetteinoz

Like its predecessor INVISIBLE MURDER features Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg who, in addition to her day job, volunteers for a group known as the Network which helps refugees and other outliers that normal services don’t, or won’t, provide … Continue reading →

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Review: REDEMPTION by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Posted on August 29, 2013 by bernadetteinoz

I occasionally wonder if I’ve simply read too much crime fiction. REDEMPTION (published as A CONSPIRACY OF FAITH in the US) is Jussi Adler-Olsen’s third novel to feature Carl Mørck and his team of well meaning misfits in Department Q: … Continue reading →

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Review: DISGRACE by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Posted on July 10, 2012 by bernadetteinoz

In Adler-Olsen’s second novel to be translated into English we meet a very unsavoury group of criminals who, since they were teenagers together at boarding school, have loved nothing better than fuelling themselves up on illicit drugs then violently attacking … Continue reading →

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Review: THE BOY IN THE SUITCASE by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis

Posted on May 9, 2012 by bernadetteinoz

There’s absolutely no ambiguity about the title of this book: there is a boy and he is indeed in a suitcase, discovered there by Danish nurse Nina Borg after a frantic phone call from an old friend demanding that she … Continue reading →

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Review: Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Posted on October 9, 2011 by bernadetteinoz

Note: this book is published in the US as The Keeper of Lost Causes and is referred to at the author’s website as The Woman in the Cage. Given that everyone in the world has already read this book (refer … Continue reading →

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Review: The Serbian Dane by Leif Davidsen

Posted on May 4, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

This book made its way onto my TBR pile after being highlighted by Maxine at Petrona during the Crime Fiction Alphabet meme that has recently wound up. I’m counting it as my second book in the 2010 Scandinavian Reading Challenge. … Continue reading →

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Review: The Exception by Christian Jungersen

Posted on March 10, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

Four women work at the Danish Centre for Genocide Information. Iben and Malene are old friends from University who are now project officers at the Centre, Camilla is secretary to the Centre’s Director and Anna-Lise, the newest member of staff, … Continue reading →

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