copenhagen (denmark)

On the first Tuesday in October, Rosa Hartung is returning to her job as minister for social affairs following a year's leave of absence; granted after the dramatic disappearance of her twelve-year-old daughter. Linus Bekker, a mentally ill young man, confessed to her killing, but is unable to remember where he buried the various parts of her dismembered corpse, leaving Rosa with no choice but to try to move on without closure. The same day Rosa returns to parliament, a young single mother is found brutally murdered at her home in the suburbs of Copenhagen; she's been tortured, and one hand has been cut off. Thulin and Hess, the detectives sent to investigate the crime, arrive at the address to find a figure made of chestnuts hanging from a playhouse nearby. When yet another woman is murdered; this time with both hands cut off; and another chestnut figure is found, Thulin and Hess begin to suspect a connection to the Hartung case.

"Two police detectives struggle to solve a shocking murder and stop a killer hell-bent on revenge"--Amazon.

"In nineteenth-century Copenhagen, an orphaned seamstress goes to work for a retired ballerina and uses her magic to investigate her father's mysterious death while working for the same family years ago"--Provided by publisher.

Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen investigates the mysterious death of a six year old Inuit neighbor in Copenhagen.

At a private school in Copenhagen in the 1970s, three students are drawn together and soon discover they are unwittingly part of the school's experiment in controlling children.

A sixteen-year-old American girl becomes involved with a circus clown in Moscow who is sought by the KGB.

British regimental quartermaster--and swashbuckling hero--Richard Sharpe finds himself at odds with Captain John Lavisser, a traitor for the French, during an 1807 campaign by the British to destroy the Danish navy before the French can add it to their fleet.

Thirty-seven-year-old Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a member of Denmark's small Eskimo/Greenlander community, goes against the advice of the police to investigate when her young friend, six-year-old Isaiah Christiansen, is killed in what authorities insist was an accidental fall from the roof of the apartment building.