Agnete Friis

Første bind i ny serie om ekspolitibetjenten Astrid Skov og hendes makker Sara Vardi.Astrid Skov er en livstræt ekspolitibetjent, som er flyttet til Berlin for at komme væk fra nogle problemer i sin fortid. For at finansiere sin nye tilværelse, samtidig med at hunholder lav profil, tager hun et job som online-clairvoyant.Hun har dog stadig svært ved at betale sine regninger, så da hun bliver ringet op af den unge Sara, der håber på at lokalisere sin forsvundne, livsfarligt syge bror, tilbyder hun at efterforske hans forsvinden mod et passende honorar.Sara er vokset op i den kristne sekt, ”Justas’ børn”, som datter af den karismatiske leder Susan Vardi, der hævder at kunne helbrede syge børn med håndspålæggelse og bøn. Sekten holder til i en landsby i nærheden af Helsingør, men sporene efter broren peger mod en lille tjekkisk by på grænsen til Tyskland, og de to kvinder begiver sig ud på en roadtrip i håb om at finde broren, før det er for sent.

En regnvåd septemberaften kører Dannyen stjålen bil ind i en gruppe kvindelige studerende og dræber flere af dem. Han er træt af velfærdssamfundets løgn, lige muligheder for alle, og han kan slet ikke udholde de unge kvinder, der taler om undertrykkelse af minoriteter i andre lande, men ikke værdiger folk som ham med så meget som et blik.Da Dannys flugt fra gerningsstedet trods nøje planlægning alligevel går galt, får han brug for akut lægehjælp, og han kontakter lægen Thomas, som han har en klemme på. Thomas er ung og lovende kirurg, men han er havnet i et pillemisbrug, der er ved at vokse ham over hovedet, og da Danny truer med at afsløre ham, ser han ingen anden mulighed end at komme ham i møde. Men efterhånden som Thomas får mistanke om, at Danny står bag angrebet og sandsynligvis planlægger flere, må han gøre op med sig selv, hvad der er vigtigst– hans karriere eller hans moral. Kan Thomas afsløre Danny uden at afsløre sig selv?

The four-time New York Times bestselling Danish crime fiction sensation, a modern classic of Nordic noir, reissued in a gorgeous deluxe edition for its tenth anniversary. Includes reading group guide, new foreword, and other exclusive content. Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help--even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive. Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy's are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.

Agnete Friis's lyrical, evocative work of psychological suspense weaves together two periods in one man's life to explore obsession, toxic masculinity, and the tricks we play on our own memory. Jacob, a middle-aged architect living in Copenhagen, is in the alcohol-soaked throes of a bitter divorce when he receives an unexpected call from his great-uncle Anton. In his nineties and still living with his brother on their rural Jutland farm--a place Jacob hasn't visited since the summer of 1978--Anton remains haunted by a single question: What happened to Ellen? To find out, Jacob must return to the farm and confront what took place that summer--one defined by his teenage obsession with Ellen, a beautiful young hippie from the local commune, and the unsolved disappearance of a local girl. In revisiting old friends and rivals, Jacob discovers the tragedies that have haunted him for over forty years were not what they seemed.

Twisty and brimming with the emotional power of beautifully drawn characters, the solo debut by the coauthor of The Boy in the Suitcase is a brooding and atmospheric thriller that sets a young mother on a collision course with her past in order to save her son's future. 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 at a time, sometimes days. After one particularly bad episode lands Ella in a psych ward, she discovers her son, Alex, has been taken from her by the state and placed with a foster family. Desperate not to lose her son, Ella kidnaps Alex and flees to the seaside town in northern Denmark where she was born. Her grandmother's abandoned house is in grave disrepair, but she can live there for free until she can figure out how to convince social services that despite everything, she is the best parent for her child. But being back in the small town forces Ella to confront the demons of her childhood--the monsters her memory has tried so hard to obscure. What really happened that night her mother died? Was her grandmother right--was Ella's father unjustly convicted? What other secrets were her parents hiding from each other? If Ella can start to remember, maybe her scars will begin to heal--or maybe the truth will put her in even greater danger.

28-årige Ella har vænnet sig til livet som kontanthjælpsmodtager, men da kommunen truer med at fjerne hendes søn, får hun nok. Sammen med Alex flygter hun over hals og hoved til det eneste fristed, hun kan komme i tanke om: farmorens forladte hus i barndomsbyen Klitmøller. Men gensynet med barndommens landskab igangsætter et opgør med fortiden og sandheden bag den familietragedie, der de sidste tyve år har fastlåst hendes liv. ”… skarpt konstrueret og præcist affyret. ” - Weekendavisen ”Agnete Friis mestrer spændingshåndværket. ” - Politiken ”Blitz er på én gang excellent, nervepirrende underholdning og kompetent psykologisering i kunstnerisk samklang. ” - Nordjyske Stiftstidende ”Bevægende. ” - Ekstra Bladet

The thrilling final installment of the New York Times bestselling Nina Borg series set in Denmark In an attempt to save their marriage, Nina Borg and her husband traveled to a beach resort in the Philippines for a dream vacation. Only now, six months later, does Nina begin to understand the devastating repercussions of that trip--repercussions that have followed her home across the globe to Denmark. On an icy winter day, she is attacked outside the grocery store. The last thing she hears before losing consciousness is her assailant asking 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. As Nina tries to trace the origin of sinister messages she's received, she realizes the attempt on her life must be linked to events in Manila, and to three young men whose dangerous friendship started in medical school. Time and circumstance have forced them to make impossible choices that have cost human lives. It's a long way from Viborg to Manila, and yet Nina and her pursuer face the same dilemma: How far will they go to save themselves? From the Hardcover edition.

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help--even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy's are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down. From the Hardcover edition.

From the Nordic noir duo who brought you "The New York Times" bestseller "The Boy in the Suitcase "comes a chilling new thriller with a mystery seventy-years in the making. Nina. Natasha. Olga. Three women united by one terrifying secret. But only one of them has killed to keep it. Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian woman who has been convicted of the attempted murder of her Danish fiance, escapes police custody on her way to an interrogation in Copenhagen's police headquarters. That night, the frozen, tortured body of Michael, the ex-fiance, is found in a car, and the manhunt for Natasha escalates. It isn't the first time the young Ukrainian woman has lost a partner to violent ends: her first husband was also murdered, three years earlier in Kiev, and in the same manner: tortured to death in a car. Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg has been following Natasha's case for several years now, since Natasha first took refuge at a crisis center where Nina works. Nina, who had tried to help Natasha leave her abusive fiance more than once, just can't see the young Ukrainian mother as a vicious killer. But in her effort to protect Natasha's daughter and discover the truth, Nina realizes there is much she didn't know about this woman and her past. The mystery has long and bloody roots, going back to a terrible famine that devastated Stalinist Ukraine in 1934, when a ten-year-old girl with the voice of a nightingale sang her family into shallow graves.

The second installment in the bestselling Danish crime series starring Red Cross nurse Nina Borg, following Fall 2011's New York Times bestselling The Boy in the Suitcase In the ruins of an abandoned Soviet military hospital in northern Hungary, two impoverished Roma boys are scavenging for old supplies or weapons to sell on the black market when they stumble upon something more valuable than they ever could have anticipated. The resulting chain of events threatens to blow the lives of a frightening number of people. Meanwhile, in Denmark, Red Cross nurse Nina Borg puts her life and family on the line when she tries to treat a group of Hungarian Gypsies who are living illegally in a Copenhagen garage. What are they hiding, and what is making them so sick? Nina is about to learn how high the stakes are among the desperate and the deadly. From the Hardcover edition."