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On a rainy Sunday evening in February, two men are executed with a machine gun in a car in Copenhagen. The murder weapon leads the investigative team and police detective Lars Winkler to the rocker crowd. Journalist Louise has traveled to Vietnam to track down her biological mother. Whilst...

Malin is the youngest scion in the Askehave family, who own Denmark's second-largest shipping group, and also the one that their father wishes as CEO after him. However, Malin and her brother, Robert, the director of Climate Action Network Europe, have broken off all contact with the family...

When a human skeleton, with an animal skull instead of a head, turns up in Copenhagen, investigator Christian Porsing is immediately drawn into the case, but there are no clues to go on. By chance, Sigga Freitag, the former star profiler of the German police, is in Copenhagen and he impulsively...

The ghetto settlement Oksevænget on Bellahøj in Copenhagen has long been in the media's focus with crime, ethnic tensions and social problems. But with a long, tough effort, the municipality and the residents' association have succeeded in reversing the downward spiral. The Danish People's...

VERFLUCHTES BLUT ist der erste Teil von Jakob Melanders packender Reihe ASKEHAVE SHIPPING, ein Thrillerdrama um eine steinreiche Reedereifamilie. Die 27-jährige Malin Askehave ist Frontfrau der erfolgreichen Band Gaia 5 und engagiert sich leidenschaftlich im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel...

A woman is found murdered. Her eyes have been removed with surgical precision. A man holds a private dinner party in a fashionable part of town. Again and again… Copenhagen's most dedicated police detective, Lars Winkler, has his hands full with the gruesome murder. But the investigation is...

The second book in the thrilling series about Detective Inspector Lars Winkler – Serafine is a murderous story about the abuse of power. 1999: In a Danish refugee centre, a little boy finds his 14-year-old older sister dead with a naked man on top of her, staring back at him. 2013: The Mayor...

VERRATEN ist der zweite Teil von ASKEHAVE SHIPPING, ein Thrillerdrama um eine steinreiche Reedereifamilie. Nach dem gewaltsamen Tod ihres Vaters ist Malin Askehave als CEO in das Familienunternehmen eingetreten, um seine "grüne" Strategie weiter zu verfolgen. Das Wissen um die schmutzige...

When the abused body of a Danish dairy cow drifts ashore on Gilleleje Strand, police assistant Lars Winkler comes on the trail of a case involving the smuggling of large quantities of an LSD-like substance. During an arrest of two climbing thieves at the Hotel Continental on Nørrebrogade in...

The explosive third installment in the popular series about DI Lars Winkler takes the reader into Winkler's secret past to uncover the truth… When a bomb explodes and the body of left-wing journalist, and Winkler's old friend, Thorbjørn Lehbæk is found at the scene questions quickly arise...

A corpse is found in a snow-covered Tivoli Gardens one night five days before Christmas. Stabbed to death, strapped to the bottom of the gondola. The investigation is complicated when the wife of one of the suspects is accused of attempted murder in Christiania. Meanwhile, her family is falling...