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The Scarred Woman

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Written by Jussi Adler-Olsen, translated by William Frost — Rigmor Zimmermann is dead. Bludgeoned. Her body has been found in the King’s Gardens in Copenhagen but it’s not a case Carl Mørck and Department Q can touch. Their remit is strictly cold cases. However, because…
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Interview: Jussi Adler-Olsen

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The Department Q series by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen is one of the best going. This division of the Copenhagen police force deals with the cold cases other detectives just couldn’t solve, all over Denmark. Situated in their basement office they’re seen as misfits, led…
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The Susan Effect

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Written by Peter Hoeg, translated by Martin Aitken — Susan Svendsen and her family are away in India. Not together, mind you. Her husband, Laban, and twin boy and girl Harald and Thit, are there separately, and yet each member of the family is in…
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What My Body Remebers

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Elsa Nygaard’s earliest memory is her mother’s murder, and the killer was Elsa’s father. She is now a single mother and ward of the state here in this unique novel by Agnete Friis. Her violent temper forces her to flee from the authorities with her…
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What My Body Remembers

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Written by Agnete Friis, translated by Lindy Falk van Rooyen — Ella Nygaard’s earliest memory is becoming an orphan when her father murdered her mother. However, she is suppressing her memory of the event, and as a result suffers from PTSD, and is subject to fits. She…
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