Search Results: Denmark from Murder By The Book

N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 1930. 1st edition. A fine, square tight copy without dust jacket. Translation of "Saenomenet Robert Robertson." Oslo, 1922, as by Stein Riverton. [Crime Fiction IV, Allen J Hubin ]. Uncommon title. This copy, although not marked as such, comes from the George Cloos collection of detective fiction.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Book.

NY: Congdon & Lattes, 1982. 1st ed. previous ostore stamp lightly erased at front endpaper else near fine in dj. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Akashic Books, 2010. 1st printing, so stated. A fine, unread copy. Translated by Mark Kline. Includes brand-new stories by: Naja Marie Aidt, Jonas T. Bengtsson, Helle Helle, Christian Dorph and Simon Pasternak, Susanne Staun, Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis, Klaus Rifbjerg, Gretelise Holm, Georg Ursin, Kristian Lundberg, Kristina Stoltz, Seyit Öztürk, Benn Q. Holm, and Gunnar Staalesen. "The latest entry in the publisher's series (41 and counting) proves the resilience of, and market for, these locale noirs. Editor Michaëlis, a Danish book critic, is both scholarly and insightful in the introduction and outlines how the stories reflect the greed and ennui of modern Denmark in contrast to the Danish idyll depicted in tourist brochures . . . Although some stories veer from noir orthodoxy, there are fine examples of lyrical writing, noir sensibilities, and insight into the current Danish psyche. Overall, a very impressive anthology." --Library Journal. .… Read More

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2013. 1st ed., fine copy of the Advance Uncopyedited Edition, due out November, 2013. 368 pages.Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian woman who has been arrested for murdering her Danish fiance, escapes police custody on her way to an interrogation in Copenhagen's police headquarters. It isn't the first time Natasha has lost a partner to violent ends: her first husband was also murdered, three years earlier in Kiev, and in the same manner, his hands broken. At the same time, someone tries to abduct Natasha's eight-year-old daughter from the Red Cross center that has been caring for her while her mother, an illegal immigrant, was in jail. Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg has been following Natasha's case for several years now, since Natasha first took refuge at a crisis center where Nina works. Nina, who had tried to help Natasha leave her abusive Danish fiancé more than once, just can't see the young Ukrainian mother as a vicious killer. But in her effort to… Read More

N.Y.: Doubleday, 2006. First U.S. Edition., with complete number line beginning with 1. Top of page edges lightly soiloed else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Translated from the Danish By Anna Paterson. Four women work together for a small nonprofit in Copenhagen that disseminates information on genocide. When two of them receive death threats, they immediately believe that they are being stalked by Mirko Zigic, a Serbian torturer and war criminal, whom they have recently profiled in their articles. As the tensions mount among the women, their suspicions turn away from Zigic and toward each other. The threats increase and soon the office becomes a battlefield in which each of the women’s move is suspect. Their obsession turns into a witch hunt as they resort to bullying and victimization. Yet these are people who daily analyze cases of appalling cruelty on a worldwide scale, and who are intimate with the psychology of evil. The cruelty which the… Read More

N.Y.: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 2016. First U.S. Edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Translated from Dutch By Hester Velmans. An award-winning, internationally bestselling author makes her American debut with this taut, riveting domestic drama about a long-lost brother convicted of a horrifying crime and a sister’s fight to clear his name. A single mother and lawyer, Iris has a colorful caseload, a young son with behavior issues, and a judgmental mother. She also has a brother—shocking news she uncovers by accident. Why did her mother lie to her for her entire life? Why did she hide the existence of Ray Boelens from her? Curious about this sibling she has never known, Iris begins to search for long-buried truths. What she discovers surprises—and horrifies—her. Her older brother is autistic—and in prison for brutally murdering his neighbor and her daughter. Visiting Ray, she… Read More

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 1977. 1st. Edition, September 1977, Near fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, $8.95 price intact, in an acid-free archival acetate cover. By the time David Hanna Shaw is shuttled off to an Ivy League school by his preoccupied mother, the brilliant young linguist is already fluent in a half dozen languages. He’s also a quick study in international swindling, deceit, drug smuggling, and currency profiteering. That’s what comes from having been dragged across every European capital by a mendacious diplomat father. Then, one day, innately unsettled and anxious, David suddenly disappears from campus. Finally on his own and living only for himself, David heads back to Europe, where he becomes a professional drifter, taking on odd jobs as everything from a brothel handyman in Paris to an occasional courier for a cadre of smugglers in Amsterdam. Swayed by the cash, and a beautiful new lover, David has found his niche—only to be betrayed by… Read More

NY: Harper & Row, 1970. 1st ed. Black and white covers bright, fine in white dust jacket moderately soiled and a few closed tears. Suspense thriller set in Denmark. Translated from the Danish by Carolyn Bly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

N.Y.: Grand Central Pub, 2018. 1st American Edition, January 2018, with complete number line beginning with 1. International bestselling author Sara Blaedel is back with a powerful and twist-filled new suspense novel featuring detective Louise Rick. Louise gets a call from her son, Jonas. It's every parent's worst nightmare: A school party has ended in terrifying chaos after a group of violent teenagers forced their way into the building in search of alcohol and valuables. Dashing to the scene, Louise discovers one of the students gravely injured--struck by a car while attempting to run for help. Now the girl's distraught mother, pushed to her emotional breaking point, will do anything to make those who hurt her daughter pay. So when someone targets the gang members with a vicious attack, the girl's mother is the obvious suspect. But Louise can't shake the feeling that the case might not be as cut-and-dried as it first appears. Someone is lying--but who? Masterfully plumbing the… Read More

FARRAR STRAUS AND GIROUX, 1993. 1st ed. Author's first book. A DILYS AWARD WINNER and an EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE. "The title of this quiet, absorbing suspense novel by a Danish author only suggests the intriguing story it tells. After young Isaiah Christiansen falls from a snow-covered roof in present-day Copenhagen, something about his lone rooftop tracks--and the fact that the boy had a fear of heights--obsesses Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman who had befriended him. Smilla is 37, unmarried, and, like Isaiah, part of Denmark's small Eskimo/Greenlander community. She is also a minor Danish authority on the properties and classification of ice. Her search for what had frightened the boy leads her to uncover information about his father's mysterious death on a secret expedition to Greenland, a mission funded by a powerful Danish corporation involved in a strange conspiracy stretching back to WW II. As related in Smilla's sober, no-nonsense narration, the plot acquires… Read More

N.Y.: Soho Crime, 2017. 1st ed. A fine, unread copy of the Advance Uncopyedited Edition due out in May, 2017. 304 pages. Ella Nygaard, 27, has been a ward of the state since she was seven years old, the night her father murdered her mother. She doesn’t remember anything about that night or her childhood before it-- but her body remembers. The PTSD-induced panic attacks she now suffers incapacitate her for hours-- sometimes days-- at a time and leave her physically and psychically drained. After one particularly bad episode lands Ella in a psych ward, she discovers her son, Alex, has been taken from her by the state and placed with a foster family. Driven by desperation, Ella kidnaps Alex and flees to the seaside town in northern Denmark where she was born. Her grandmother’s abandoned house is in grave disrepair, but she can live there for free until she can figure out how to convince social services that despite everything, she is the best parent for her child. But being back in the… Read More