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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Jakob Melander
The idea to Serafine, The Scream of the Butterfly in English, stems from a mental image I carried around for some time. The lord mayor of Copenhagen lying murdered in a flat in Copenhagen. At his side is a very sad prostitute. Who is she? Why is she so sad? And how did these two people chance to meet? Those were the questions I kept asking myself, and gradually these questions and their answers, that again fed other questions, grew to the novel that became latest installment in the Lars Winkler-series.

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