Published
by Headline,
7 May 2015.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-9816-4
7 May 2015.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-9816-4
Ex-convict Peter Boutrup was the
last person to see a young nun alive ... the next day, intrepid diver Kir Røjel is
called in to search the convent moat. The nun has been garotted ... as was the
victim Kir found in an old box of bones on the seabed – but how can two murders
sixty years apart be linked, and what’s the connection with a missing teenager?
This tricksy
novel has enough twists to make anyone dizzy. Just as the reader thinks it’s
beginning to connect up, then Egholm spins her story in another direction. The main
characters draw you in: loner Peter, mourning his lost friend My, living alone
with his dog in a house booby-trapped against the biker gang who are determined
to pay him back for a previous injury; determined, feisty Kir, whose previous
relationship with Detective Mark Bille Hansen has foundered for reasons she
doesn’t understand; Mark himself, sidelined in his own police station by the
ambitious Anna Bragge. The story is told in the third person, shifting from
Peter’s unofficial and unorthodox investigations through Kir’s intuitive
reactions to Mark’s policework. The rural Danish setting is an enjoyable
change, the body count is high, the action fast, and the final scenes
compelling reading.
A
very readable Danish crime novel, combining PP with a maverick amateur
investigator. This is the second in the series, and although it reads well as a
stand-alone, the events of the first book are still important to the
characters, so you might like to begin with Three
Dog Night.
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Reviewer:
Marsali Taylor
Elsebeth Egholm was born 17 September 1960. She is a Danish author and journalist
whi lives in Jutland, Denmark. She has written several books, and in 2011
published Three Dog Night which was
the start of a new series introducing Pewter Boutrup which was an instant best-sellier.
She is known internationally as the creator of the television series Those Who Kill, shown on ITV3.
Marsali Taylor grew up near Edinburgh, and came to Shetland as a newly-qualified teacher. She is currently a part-time teacher on Shetland's scenic west side, living with her husband and two Shetland ponies. Marsali is a qualified STGA tourist-guide who is fascinated by history, and has published plays in Shetland's distinctive dialect, as well as a history of women's suffrage in Shetland. She's also a keen sailor who enjoys exploring in her own
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