HUND – DOG
DOG is the gripping opener to a brand-new series. A Top 10 bestseller in Denmark and Bog & Idé booksellers’ Book of the Month.
A naked, enfeebled man appears at a Christmas market at the dilapidated
Hesbjerg Manor on the island of Funen. His body bears fresh bite marks of what appears to be a large dog, and the man seems mentally absent. JRT, the joint psychological unit between the Region of Southern Denmark and Odense Police, is called in and the work of establishing the man’s identity and the circumstances around his injuries begins.
When the nameless man is examined the next day, scans reveal a gruesome reality behind his behaviour and it turns out that he has been the victim of a serious crime. When a new victim with similar injuries turns up near Skanderborg, the case is turned on its head and the terms “killer” and “victim” begin to merge.
Police Inspector Line Præst and her sister Ragnhild, a psychologist at the regional psychiatric centre, have to work more closely together, much to Line’s annoyance, and a new department at Odense Police is born.
The case spreads its ripples and anxiety runs deep. People begin to fear big dogs, and for Line and Ragnhild, the case takes a tragic and all too personal turn. Death is suddenly as close as the warm breath of a wild dog.
What is it like to see your own death?
Dog will be followed up by Cross in early 2026, and Stone in 2027, with a further three books planned in the series.
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OPLØST – DISSOLVED
By Sara Blædel & Mads Peder Nordbo
“It feels as if she’s completely bloated. I think her skin is covered in sores. I can stick my fingers into it… she has dissolved.”
IT IS SUMMER and everything is peaceful and idyllic in the Funen village of Tommerup, when Charlotte, a young mother of two small children, is on her way from her morning exercise in the sports centre to her job at the local school. A few minutes later, she disappears without a trace somewhere on the short stretch between the centre and the school.
LATER IN THE day, when Charlotte’s husband shows up in a desperate state at the police station in Odense, Chief Superintendent Liam Stark and Superintendent Dea Torp don’t initially react to the case, as the woman has only been missing for eight hours. The next morning, Charlotte still hasn’t turned up, and it soon becomes clear that a crime may have been committed.
IN THE FOLLOWING days, the case grows to an extent where most of Funen is involved, and people are hiding indoors in fear of becoming the next victim. An intense battle against time unfolds for Liam and Dea, who find themselves trapped in a game where people die a painful death, without the police being able to do anything but watch helplessly.
HOW DO YOU solve such a gruesome crime without victims? How do you track down a maniac whose only goal in life is to be one step ahead? What is it like to know that you are going to die and are waiting for your body to decompose?
SUCCES-DUO JOIN forces for new crime series – experienced authors Sara Blædel and Mads Peder Nordbo publish crime fiction together. The new Liam and Dea-series starts with Dissolved, releases June 16th in Denmark.
SÅR – WOUND
By Sara Blædel & Mads Peder Nordbo
CHIEF POLICE OFFICER Margrethe Dybbøl’s teenage daughter, Zenia, is missing. Zenia usually spends a few days away from home to be with friends but when an ongoing investigation is looking at another girl who has been missing for three weeks Dybbøl begins to get nervous. Is there a risk that the two disappearances are related?
AT THE SAME time Chief Superintendent Liam Stark is called out to a scene
where a body that has very visible wounds in the shape of flames carved into the skin has been found.
Dea Torp takes a few days off work to be with her new partner but much to her annoyance she needs to get back to work to help with the case.
WHEN DEA AND Liam’s investigation leads them to the painter Monika Le Fevre, who is known to carve similar wounds into living animals as part of her political art, it becomes clear that she can be tied to both the dead body and Dybbøl’s missing daughter.
IT BECOMES CLEAR that Dybbøl did not know her daughter as well as she thought, and the discovery of Zenia’s actions gives her chilling forebodings.