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Copenhagens Detective Carl M²rck is back and ready for action in the second Department Q novel from the “new it boy of Nordic Noir” (The Times, London).Carl M²rck has settled into Department Q and is ready to take on another cold case. This time, its the brutal double-murder of a brother and sister two decades earlier. One of the suspects confessed and is serving time, but its clear to M²rck that all is not what it seems. Kimmie, a homeless...

When his friend, Cassioperia Vitt finds herself in a jam, Cotton Malone agrees to help. However, as he investigates why anybody would want to harm his friend, he realizes that she is in the middle of an international conspiracy. Consequently, Malone finds himself going up against his former boss and stumbles upon a plot to covertly control the world.

Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian mail-order bride who has been convicted of the attempted murder of her Danish fiance, escapes custody on her way to an interrogation in Copenhagen's police headquarters. That night, the frozen, tortured body of the fiance is found in a car, and the manhunt for Natasha escalates. The police aren't the only ones on her trail; Natasha's past has finally caught up to her and she is being pursued by the Danish Secret Service,...

Receiving a sealed bottle with a years-old plea for help by two young victims imprisoned in a boathouse by the sea, Detective Carl Morck follows leads to a desperate woman trapped in a brutal marriage to a man who keeps her in isolation and hides deadly secrets.

Red Cross nurse Nina Borg is drawn into Copenhagen's brutal underworld when she becomes the unwitting caretaker of a three-year-old boy who may be a victim of child trafficking.

Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is drawn into a nightmare when she begins receiving letters from a woman police believe is a killer, forcing her to revisit the darkest parts of her own past to confront someone she swore she'd never see again.

A story based on the Jewish legend about how the world is always protected by 36 people follows the sudden deaths of dozens of humanitarians who each bear a bizarre tattoo and whose untimely ends are investigated by Copenhagen detective Niels Benzon, who would save the remaining protectors.

It was clearly no ordinary drowning. Inspector Louise Rick is called out to Holbraek Fjord when a young immigrant girl is found in the watery depths, a piece of concrete tied around her waist and two mysterious circular patches on the back of her neck .... Navigating the complex web of family and community ties in Copenhagen's tightly knit ethnic communities, Louise must find the remorseless predator, or predators, before it is too late.

"As a Red Cross nurse, Nina typically finds herself fighting for others' lives, not her own. 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. It's a long way from Viborg to Manila, and yet Nina and her pursuer her face the same dilemma: how far will they go to save themselves?"-- Provided by publisher.