Danish Crime Fiction

Emma Frost inherits a house on Fanoe Island when her grandmother dies. She decides to move there with her family, much to her teenage daughter's regret. One morning a wealthy older woman living in her street is found murdered and soon Emma finds herself wrapped in a mystery uncovering the island's dark secrets reaching into her own family.

It’s been more than 20 years since Olof Hagström left home. Returning to his family’s house, he knows instantly that something is amiss. The front door key, hidden under a familiar stone, is still there. Inside, there’s a panicked dog, a terrible stench, water pooling on the floor: The father Olaf has not seen or spoken to in decades is dead in the bathroom shower.

On her 60th birthday, a woman commits suicide. When the case lands on Detective Carl Mørck's desk, he can't imagine what this has to do with Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division. It's a tragedy to be sure, but the cause of death seems to be clear. But his superior, Marcus Jacobsen, is convinced that this is not in fact a suicide, but a murder related to an unsolved case that has been plaguing him since 1988. At Marcus' behest, Carl and the Department Q gang—Rose, Assad, and Gordon—reluctantly begin to investigate.

Suspended from his job, criminal investigator Thomas "Ravn" Ravnsholdt lives a lonely, dissolute existence—until he crosses paths with a woman desperate for help locating her missing brother. Driven to embezzlement, the man has vanished without a trace on a visit to Berlin. Ravn's investigation takes a chilling turn when he uncovers a pattern of similar disappearances involving single men in the German capital. As the pieces of this puzzle start to fall into place, Ravn finds himself entangled in a web of darkness and deception that dates back to the era of the Stasi.

When a remote country house near Trige in East Jutland becomes the scene of a deadly crime, Detective Roland Benito is faced with a case that turns out to be much more than an ordinary home robbery. Meanwhile, journalist Anne Larsen has been laid off and soon after finds herself embarking on a haunting investigation of her own. As homeless people mysteriously disappear from the streets, she uncovers a dark connection that leads her back to the Viking Age. Can the cases be cracked before it's too late?

Criminal investigator Thomas Ravnsholdt—better known as Ravn—is on leave from Copenhagen’s special crime unit following the brutal murder of his wife. Wracked with guilt over her death, Ravn has withdrawn to a ramshackle houseboat with only his grumpy Old English Bulldog to keep him company. But his self-imposed exile ends when a friend asks him for help finding a young woman who disappeared without a trace a few years earlier. The investigation brings Ravn back to his former workplace and the underworld he’d hoped to leave behind.

En folkepensionist dræbes i en slumkaserne på Vesterbro i København. Næste dag bliver endnu en beboer i samme hus fundet skudt. Sådan begnder den første sag for Dan Turèlls navnløse journalistdetektiv. Sammen med politiinspektør Ehlers fra Halmtorvet begiver han sig ud i Vesterbros mørkeverden blandt ludere og narkomaner, pushere og voldsmænd for at opklare de mystiske mord. Det bliver en farlig - og forgæves - jagt på underverdenens kyniske og usynlige bagmænd.

Freelance private detective Thomas "Ravn" Ravnsholdt is attempting to move on with his life following the murder of his girlfriend. But when wealthy business mogul Ferdinand Mesmer enlists his help finding his son, Ravn reluctantly takes on what he thinks will be a straightforward missing person case. A decade ago, Jacob Mesmer founded the mysterious and scandal-scarred religious sect "God's Chosen." Now he's vanished without a trace. As Ravn digs deeper, he discovers the previous private eye assigned to the case has also disappeared.

Den fattige student Rodion Raskolnikov besættes af ideen om at komme ud af sin og familiens fortvivlede situation ved at myrde en gammel, uhæderlig og grådig pantelånerske og bemægtige sig hendes gemte formue, så han kan fuldende studierne og virke til gavn for samfundet. Han er påvirket af de herskende nihilistiske teorier, hvor store ånder og stærke karakterer som han selv ikke er underlagt gængs lov og moral, når det gælder om at fremme ideale mål.

Ondskaben kender ingen grænser. Den erfarne privatopdager Ravn får sin mest uhyggelige sag til dato, da en klient beder ham finde en gammel skolekammerat, som han ikke har haft kontakt med i 17 år. En række bestialske overfald på kvinder, der ryster København har givet klienten mistanke om, at hans skolekammerat står bag, fordi overfaldene minder om det, som han og kammeraten begik på en lille pige tilbage i 1993, og som endte fatalt.

Spaendende dansk krimi med et kompliceret og snedigt udtaenkt plot. En tidlig morgen i en ejendom i indre København bevaeger folkepensionist Gregers Hermansen sig forsigtigt ned ad trapperne med sin skraldepose. Hos underboen står en dør på klem, og uheldigvis falder Gregers ind i lejligheden, da han vil støtte sig til karmen. Da han kommer til sig selv, opdager han, at han ligger oven på liget af en ung kvinde. Det bliver en sag for kriminalbetjent Jeppe Kørner og hans kollega Anette Werner.

Set in the Danish coastal town of Karrebaeksminde, the story follows journalist Rebekka Franck, who returns to her hometown with her six-year-old daughter. She is trying to escape her ex-husband and start a new life for her and her daughter when the sleepy small town experiences a murder. One of the kingdom's wealthiest men is brutally murdered in his summer residence in Karrebaeksminde.

Danmarks højest dekorerede soldat nogensinde, Niels Oxen, hutler sig gennem tilværelsen i Københavns nordvestkvarter. Den traumeramte krigsveteran lever af at samle flasker og spise madaffald fra supermarkeder. I håb om at få fred for sine indre dæmoner tager det tidligere medlem af Jægerkorpset sammen med sin hund til Nordjylland og slår lejr dybt inde i Rold Skov for at leve det simple liv. Men drømmen bliver til et mareridt for Niels Oxen.

Called to the scene of a murder outside Trige, Roland Benito assumes it's a case of petty criminals who made a gruesome mistake. After all, home robberies have been plaguing all of East Jutland for years. But it soon becomes clear that the men who beat Albert Hovgaard to death inside his country estate were no ordinary thieves. Meanwhile, journalist Anne Larsen has been out of work since the financial crisis shuttered the Daily News. But now an unwelcome visit from the past has her investigating a series of missing homeless people.

Natasha Bell was a juvenile delinquent. Years later, she harbors a dark secret from her youth. She never expects to work at a place like the Trevino Center for Health and Wellness, a secluded rehabilitation hospital that treats the nation’s richest patients. But when patients mysteriously die, leaving their fortunes to the elusive Trevino family, Natasha must confront her past and uncover the scam inside the Center.

Old secrets. Missing teenagers. In this small island town, something horrifying is afoot. A mysterious young girl seems to bring out powerful abilities in Emma's special-needs son. As she combs her small Danish island for clues about both mysteries, she realizes the killer and the strange girl are somehow connected. Before the killer strikes again, Emma must risk it all to uncover the frightening truth about what lies beneath her isolated island home.

In the swamp outside a small Danish village, two young boys make a gruesome discovery. Just below the surface of the water floats a corpse—now reduced to skin and bones. Twenty-five years ago, someone murdered this unfortunate woman. Now, Detective Inspector Roland Benito and his colleagues must use what scant evidence they have to identify the victim and track down her killer.

Sådan begynder historien om Flora Conway, en berømt, prisvindende forfatter. Der er ingen forklaring på hendes lille datters forsvinden. Hverken døre eller vinduer i lejligheden har været åbne, overvågningskameraerne i den gamle newyorkerbygning viser ingen tegn på en forbrydelse eller et indbrud. Og politiets efterforskning giver heller ingen klare svar.

Da Billy, en plaget ung mand, opsøger Cormoran Strike og fortæller om en forbrydelse, han så, da han var lille, efterlader det privatdetektiven dybt foruroliget. Strike og hans tidligere assistent Robin Ellacott - nu partner i detektivbureauet - forsøger at komme til bunds i Billys historie og føres ad kringlede veje gennem Londons gyder til de hemmelighedsfulde gange i parlamentet og et smukt, men dystert herresæde langt ude på landet. Sideløbende med denne labyrintiske efterforskning er Strikes eget liv langt fra enkelt.

I en afsides del af Polen nær den tjekkiske grænse lever Janina en tidligere lærerinde og ingeniør. Hun har påtaget sig den opgave at holde opsyn med de lokale sommerhusejeres vintertomme huse. Men mest er hun optaget af at lægge horoskoper oversætte Blake og at holde skarpt øje med den vilde omgivende naturs dyreliv.