Experienced authors Sara Blædel and Mads Peder Nordbo publish crime fiction together.
The new Liam and Dea-series starts with Dissolved, to be released on June 16th 2021 in Denmark.
Two of Denmark’s most read authors collaborate to pen a joint crime story just in time for the summer reading to be planned: Sara Blædel and Mads Peder Nordbo have together found the joy of writing and enthusiasm for their common genre: crime.
As Denmark’s best-selling female author, Sara Blædel has been asked many times by both Danish and international colleagues if she would like to write in a partnership:
“Every time I have been completely clear in my answer: No thank you,” says Sara Blædel. “But then Mads came up with a proposal for a story that I could not really escape, so after a long flight to Thailand, where I had time to think and plot further in my head, I felt like I had to throw myself into that.”
Mads Peder Nordbo says:
“When I got the idea for the basic plot, it was so scary that I almost frightened myself. But I feared, just as much, that I myself could not convey it further. I had just been to an event with Sara Blædel, and then I thought ‘She has what I need’. So I worked up the courage to ask, and luckily she said yes. ”
During their collaboration, it has become even more clear that they think alike in relation to books and a great crime story. “Our story has evolved a lot along the way, as it always happens when you get into it, and the characters come to life and go their own ways,” they agree. “We actually do not think there is one line in ‘Dissolved’ that we have not both been across. It has been hard work for almost 1½ years, but we both love the genre, and now we are looking forward to our crime story coming out to the readers.”
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.
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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.