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NTN: Sander Jakobsen interview

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There’s a new Scandinavian crime fiction author on the block. Well, two actually. Because Sander Jakobsen is the pseudonym for Danish school teachers Dagmar Winther and Kenneth Degnbol. One day, they decided to write a crime fiction novel together and produced The Preacher, a tale…
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Babylon by Camilla Ceder

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Readers and publishers alike are eager to discover the ‘next big thing’ in Scandinavian crime fiction. Will this story of love, jealousy and the trade in stolen cultural artefacts be what they’re looking for? Two lovers are shot dead in a flat in Gothenburg, Sweden….
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The Hanging

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Written by Søren and Lotte Hammer — Konrad Simonsen, lead detective in Copenhagen’s Murder Squad, is recalled from his long overdue holiday with his daughter after two children discover the corpses of five men hanging from the ceiling of their school gymnasium. They have been…
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The Killing is back... Forbrydelsen Forever!

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The wait is finally over for UK fans of Danish crime drama The Killing as the third and final series airs tonight on BBC4, with a double-bill. As with the previous two series, the storyline has three interlinking stories. Firstly there’s the crime – the…
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Book Club

Only One Life

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“Louise Rick is back and she finds herself on temporary reassignment to the Unit One Mobile Task Force. When a fisherman discovers the body of a young immigrant girl floating in a cove just north of the Danish town of Holbæk, the mobile task force…
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Only One Life

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Written by Sara Blaedel – Last autumn Danish crime writer Sara Blaedel made her English language debut with the fourth book in her Louise Rick series, Call Me Princess. In this novel, we met Louise and her homicide investigation team, Unit A. They were on…
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