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Dicte Svendsen #3

by Elsebeth Egholm

Aarhus is in de greep van rellen tussen politie en groepen jongeren met een migratieachtergrond, als een gruwelijke vondst wordt gedaan. Het slachtoffer is een jonge vrouw, op wie recent een keizersnede werd uitgevoerd. Waarom moest zij sterven? Waar is haar kind? Misdaadjournaliste Dicte Svendsen gaat op onderzoek. Ze trekt zich de zaak persoonlijk aan, misschien omdat haar vriendin Anne, een verloskundige die als baby geadopteerd werd, net nu op zoek is naar haar biologische ouders. Een sterk geconstrueerde politieroman over ouders, kinderen en mensenhandel. Na haar scheiding besluit misdaadjournaliste Dicte Svendsen om terug te keren naar haar geboortestad, Aarhus, samen met haar dochter Rose. Al snel komt ze in botsing met inspecteur John Wagner. Hij apprecieert het niet dat ze niet alleen schrijft over misdaad, maar de zaken ook probeert op te lossen. Een reeks misdaadromans waarin het professionele en het persoonlijke voortdurend overlappen... en elkaar verrijken.

Genres: Crime, Denmark, Fiction, Audiobook

331 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Bestselling Danish novelist Elsebeth Egholm began her career behind the keyboards of a piano. She was a student of music as a performer at The Royal Academy of Music and at the Department of Musicology at the University of Aarhus, before she changed instrument and enrolled at the Danish School of Journalism, also based in her hometown of Aarhus. She spent a few years working for a daily newspaper, but by 1992 she was living with future husband, the late British author Philip Nicholson, in the Maltese island of Gozo, working as a freelance writer.
Eventually she began making a name for herself as the author of a string of well crafted short stories published in women's magazines in both Denmark and the other Nordic countries. Her first novel had three long time friends mourning the death of a fourth and facing a mysterious stranger. ‘The Free Women's Club' was published in 1999 to unanimous acclaim. In ‘Scirocco' (2000) and ‘Opium' (2001) she moved into the darker corners of family and marriage, and combined a fullgrown plot with an engaging dose of international suspense.

Then, in 2002, she introduced full time journalist and part time sleuth Dicte Svendsen in ‘Hidden Errors', a novel about a dead baby found in a creek in the middle of big city Aarhus. By the second and third book in the series, ‘Own Risk' (2004) and ‘Personal Damage' (2005), both author and heroine were well known and highly treasured in her homeland. ‘Next of Kin' was published in 2006, dramatically outselling the previous novels, and Elsebeth Egholm found herself published, or about to be published, in Germany, Holland, Sweden and Norway. Afterwards, in 2008, the novel 'Life and Limb' reached the bookshelves followed by 'Against All Odds' i 2009. 'Three Dog Night' was published i 2011.

Currently Elsebeth Egholm divides her time between living in Aarhus, as does Dicte Svendsen, and on the Maltese island of Gozo.

Reviews

[Anna Kristín]

4,2 Dicte er viðstödd þegar lík af ungri stúlku finnst við vinsælan skemmtistað. Inn í líkfundinn fléttast innflytjendavandræði og vandamál í samböndum. Að auki fléttast mjög eldfim mál inn í leitina að morðingjanum. Börn og barneignir. Ég las hana á íslensku, Sjálfsskaði er hún kölluð.

[Gunnella Kaaber]

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