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2019., Adult, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Fic Sve Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the creator of the hit television show The Killing, the most anticipated thriller of the season--soon to be a Netflix Original Series. If you find one, he's already found you... A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen. His calling card is a "chestnut man"--a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts--which he leaves at each bloody crime scene. Examining the dolls, forensics makes a shocking discovery--a fingerprint belonging to a young girl, a government minister's daughter who had been kidnapped and murdered a year ago. A tragic coincidence--or something more twisted? To save innocent lives, a pair of detectives must put aside their differences to piece together the Chestnut Man's gruesome clues. Because it's clear that the madman is on a mission that is far from over. And no one is safe."--Publisher.
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c2013., Adult, Dutton Call No: MYS Fic Adl Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Department Q Volume: 3Summary Note: 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.
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c2013., Adult, Soho Call No: MYS Fic Kaa Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Nina Borg Volume: 3Summary Note: Protecting the young daughter of an illegal immigrant who has escaped police custody in the aftermath of a brutal murder, Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg struggles with a belief in the woman's innocence as she learns more about her violent past.
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2014., General, Anansi Call No: Fic Ben Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 1986. Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme has been assassinated, and a young boy and his father are on the move again. Travelling from Sweden to the outskirts of Denmark and into the heart of Copenhagen, the two live an unconventional life, constantly on the move and living on the margins of society. The father, an eccentric, restless man, takes a series of odd jobs, from making antique furniture, to landscaping, to working as a bouncer at a strip club. By day he home-schools his young son. At night he weaves a fairy tale about a prince and a king who are on a mission to kill the wicked White Queen, while running from the White Men who hide in plain sight. One day, their adventure takes a dark, unpredictable turn. Ten years later, when the boy is just entering adulthood, questions about his father's murky past can no longer remain unanswered.
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2012., Plume Call No: MYS Fic Adl Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Department Q Volume: 1Summary Note: Chief detective Carl Mrck, recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound, is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician.
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c2014., Adult, Dutton Call No: MYS Fic Adl Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Department Q Volume: 5Summary Note: A sinister new case for Department Q, following PURITY OF VENGEANCE. All 15-year-old Marco Jameson wants is to become a Danish citizen and go to school like a normal teenager. But his uncle Zola rules his former gypsy clan with an iron fist. Revered as a god and feared as a devil, Zola forces the children of the clan to beg and steal for his personal gain. When Marco discovers a dead body - proving the true extent of Zola's criminal activities - he goes on the run. But his family members aren't the only ones who'll go to any lengths to keep Marco silent . . . forever.
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c2013., Plume Call No: MYS Fic Adl Edition: First Plume Printing 2014. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Department Q Volume: 4Summary Note: International superstar Jussi Adler-Olsen, with more than fourteen million copies of his books sold worldwide, delivers his latest in the bestselling Department Q series, a perplexing cold case with sinister modern-day consequences. In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her in her youth, including Curt Wad, a charismatic surgeon who was part of a movement to sterilize wayward girls in 1950s Denmark. More than twenty years later, Detective Carl already has plenty on his mind when he is presented with the case of a brothel owner, a woman named Rita, who went missing in the eighties. New evidence has emerged in the case that destroyed the lives of his two partners - the case that sent Carl to Department Q. But when Carl's assistants, Assad and Rose, learn that numerous other people disappeared around the same weekend as Rita, Carl takes notice. As they sift through the disappearances, they get closer and closer to Curt Wad, who is more determined than ever to see the vision of his youth take hold and whose brutal treatment of Nete and others like her is only one small part of his capacity for evil. --
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2002., Harcourt Call No: Fic Gro Edition: 1st Harvest ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Harvest reading guide.Summary Note: After 18 years of marriage, an art historian wakes up one morning to find his wife standing in the bedroom doorway with her bags packed, leaving him with no explanation. Alone in his Copenhagen apartment, he tries to make sense of his enigmatic marriage and life.
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2020., Adult, Scout Press Call No: MYS Fic Eng Edition: Scout Press Canadian Export edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who's a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a budding novelist-and when Julie turns up as a murder victim in the still-unfinished mystery she's writing, the link between fiction and real life grows both more urgent and more dangerous. But Esther's role in this twisted scenario is not quite as clear as it first seems. Is she the culprit-or just another victim, trapped in a twisted game of vengeance? Anette and Jeppe must dig more deeply into the two women's pasts to discover the identity of the brutal puppet-master pulling the strings in this electrifying literary thriller.
