"A missing child ... a tainted witness ... Jensen's darkest case yet ...
'Dark deeds and deep secrets abound in Heidi Amsinck's Copenhagen. A white-knuckle ride into hell.' – IAN RANKIN
'Amsinck's Copenhagen-set crime series is reliably excellent.' – MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Relentless tension pulses through every page of this meticulously plotted thriller.'– THOMAS ENGER
‘Nordic noir at its finest…outstanding…This is superior crime fiction’ JOAN SMITH, SUNDAY TIMES, PICK OF THE MONTH.
‘The author’s finest work’ SUN, PICK OF THE WEEK
Matilde Clausen, 9, vanishes from a crowded playground in the middle of Copenhagen, triggering a frantic search across the city. When a possible link emerges to the disappearance of Lea Høgh, 10, six years ago, DI Henrik Jungersen is thrown back into the nightmare that almost finished his career. Desperate for redemption, but barred from reopening the old case, Henrik turns to his estranged lover, Dagbladet chief crime reporter Jensen, for help.
As the investigation reaches deep into Denmark’s underworld, how will Henrik, Jensen, and her troubled teenage apprentice Gustav escape the darkness that threatens to engulf them, in time to solve the mystery? What really happened to Lea? And where on earth is Matilde?
READER REVIEWS FOR OUT OF THE DARK
'Kept me on the edge of my seat'
'I plan on reading the rest of the series. Recommended!'"
"A missing person… a headless corpse… Jensen is on the case.
June, and as Copenhagen swelters under record temperatures, a headless corpse surfaces in the murky harbour, landing a new case on the desk of DI Henrik Jungersen, just as his holiday is about to start.
Elsewhere in the city, Syrian refugee Aziz Almasi, driver to Esben Nørregaard MP has vanished. Fearing a link to shady contacts from his past, Nørregaard appeals to crime reporter Jensen to investigate.
Could the body in the harbour be Aziz? Jensen turns to former lover Henrik for help. As events spiral dangerously out of control, they are thrown together once more in the pursuit of evil, in a case more twisted and, more dangerous than they could ever have imagined."
"Ein Wintermorgen in Kopenhagen. Eine Leiche mit einem Schild: 'Schuldig'. Und eine Journalistin auf der Suche nach Antworten: So beginnt der atmosphärische und fesselnde dänische Thriller 'Schneeflockengrab'. 'Schuldig.' Nur dieses eine Wort steht auf dem Pappschild des jungen Mannes, der in Kopenhagen unter einer Straßenlaterne sitzt. Am nächsten Morgen liegt er leblos im Schnee, ermordet. Jensen, Journalistin bei der Zeitung Dagbladet, stolpert fast über seine Leiche. Sie ruft Kommissar Henrik Jungersen zum Tatort, ihren besten Kontakt bei der Kopenhagener Polizei - und ehemaligen Liebhaber. Es ist schon der zweite Mord an einem Obdachlosen innerhalb von zwei Wochen, und als kurz darauf eine dritte Leiche auftaucht, gehen alle von einem Serien-Mörder aus. Doch Journalistin Jensen zweifelt an dieser Theorie: Warum sollte jemand reihenweise Obdachlose ermorden? Warum saß der Junge stundenlang an genau dieser Stelle im Schnee? Und wer ist wirklich 'schuldig'? Ein atmosphärischer Schauplatz im verschneiten Kopenhagen, eine manchmal schlecht gelaunte und trotzdem sehr sympathische Journalistin in der Hauptrolle, und ein Mord-Fall, bei dem nichts ist, wie es scheint: Dieser dänische Thriller ist einfach perfekt für spannende Winternächte!"
"When ninety-year-old Irene Valborg is found brutally murdered in an affluent suburb of Copenhagen, her diamond necklace missing, it looks like a burglary gone wrong.
When two more victims are attacked, the police lament a rise in violence against the elderly, but who is the young girl in the photo found by DI Henrik Jungersen on the scenes of crime? Impatient to claim her inheritance, Irene’s daughter hires former Dagbladet reporter Jensen and her teenage apprentice Gustav to find the necklace.Questioning his own sanity, while trying to fix his marriage, Henrik finds himself once more pitched in a quest for the truth against Jensen – the one woman in Copenhagen he is desperate to avoid."
"Copenhagen is a mysterious city where strange and sinister things often happen.
Menacing and at times darkly humorous there are echoes of Roald Dahl and Daphne du Maurier in these stories, many of which have been specially commissioned for BBC Radio 4.
From the commuter who bitterly regrets falling asleep on a late-night train in Last Train to Helsingør, to the mushroom hunter prepared to kill to guard her secret in The Chanterelles of Østvig.
Here, the land of 'hygge' becomes one of twilight and shadows, as canny antique dealers and property sharks get their comeuppance at the hands of old ladies in Conning Mrs Vinterberg, and ghosts go off-script in The Wailing Girl.
Deliciously dark and chilling, this is Nordic Noir at its finest.
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Heidi Amsinck, a writer and journalist born in Copenhagen, spent many years covering Britain for the Danish press, including a spell as London Correspondent for the broadsheet daily Jyllands-Posten. She has written numerous short stories for radio, including the three-story sets Danish Noir, Copenhagen Confidential and Copenhagen Curios, all produced by Sweet Talk for BBC Radio 4. A graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, Heidi lives in London. She was previously shortlisted for the VS Pritchett Memorial Prize. Last Train to Helsingør is her first published collection of stories. Her crime novel My Name is Jensen, set in Copenhagen, will be published in August 2021."
"Guilty. One word on a beggar’s cardboard sign. And now he is dead, stabbed in a wintry Copenhagen street, the second homeless victim in as many weeks. Dagbladet reporter Jensen, stumbling across the body on her way to work, calls her ex lover DI Henrik Jungersen. As, inevitably, old passions are rekindled, so are old regrets, and that is just the start of Jensen’s troubles. The front page is an open goal, but nothing feels right. When a third body turns up, it seems certain that a serial killer is on the loose. But why pick on the homeless? And is the link to an old murder case just a coincidence? With her teenage apprentice Gustav, Jensen soon finds herself putting everything on the line to discover exactly who is guilty.
“A nice slice of creepy Scandi-noir” DAILY MAIL"
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