Jakob Cedergren

When the skeletons of four young women are found buried in in the woods outside of Copenhagen, ambitious and headstrong Inspector Katrine Ries Jensen and Thomas Schaeffer, a reclusive and cerebral forensic psychiatrist, are drawn into a perilous hunt for a monster-- a killer who strikes according to a pattern which is at first impenetrable.

Sparkling sea, sunny beaches, ferryboat commuting-- an idyllic community, but bodies keep cropping up. Homemaker and mother of two Nora Linde never intends to get involved, but she often has a connection to the victim or discovers the body or knows the culprit. She also knows police investigator Thomas Andreasson from their school days. Theirs is a love affair that keeps not happening: they're each attracted to the other, but Nora no sooner separates...

Based on the novel by Erling Jepsen, Robert, a young cop from Copenhagen, is transferred to a small town in southern Jutland after some dark events in his private life. The new position isn't a dream job but a necessary stepping stone toward his way back to civilization in Copenhagen. But the provincial ways and local hierarchy thrust Robert onto a slippery slope.

Suffering from the shortages and shady business transactions following the Nazi occupation of Denmark, the citizens of Copenhagen are still slogging through the grey zone of the post-war era; the orderly decade of the 1950s hasn't arrived yet. City gangsters and black marketeers are having the time of their lives - they can lay their hands on anything from extra ration coupons, booze and cigarettes to American cars. Against this backdrop of scheming...