The Considerate Killer by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis - 3 stars

[Theresa]

Nina Borg is trying hard to live a normal life. While her marriage ended in divorce, she is in a tentative new relationship, spending time with her ailing mother, has school break plans with her kids, and no longer volunteers with groups giving aid to those on the fringes, work which Nina was drawn to, good at, and routinely put her and her family in danger. All that happened before, as told in the 3 prior series entries, is firmly being left behind. Or is it?

The story opens with someone nearly killing Nina in her grocery store parking garage with a blow to the back of her head. Nina's present in Denmark then alternates with the past in the Philipines of 3 medical students, whose past eventually intersects with Nina on holiday with her family in Manila and being pulled into rescue efforts after a catastrophe. From that point forward their stories are tied together, with Nina as usual in danger, and with Nina's danger magnet both endangering one she loves as well as disappointing others.

One of the things I have really liked about each of the Nina Borg series is how they seem to be leading you to a certain conclusion, but end up actually delivering quite a twist in the end, taking you somewhere you don't see coming. Unfortunately, this time that does not happen. The journey is predictable from the very beginning, going exactly where I expected it to go.
That was disappointing.

It was still well-written, it brought Nina's story to a believable end, even if she comes across a bit like Wiley Coyote, who always rises up unscathed and continues on no matter how many anvils and pianos fall on him.