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by Elsebeth Egholm

Det er sommer i Østjylland, da 19-årige Alice Nagel bliver fundet død i Stubbe Sø.
Tre uger senere holder Dictes veninde Ida Marie jubilæum for sit rejsebureau på Dokk1 i Aarhus, og Dicte og hendes kæreste, fotografen Bo, skal til fest. Det skal Dictes datter Rose også sammen med sin mand, Aziz, som er kollega til Ida Maries mand, politimanden, John Wagner.

Men festen udvikler sig ikke helt efter planen. Mens de står med champagneglassene i solskinnet, kommer en blødende mand løbende og styrer direkte mod Dicte, vælter hende omkuld og presser noget ind i hendes hånd. Da hun kommer til sig selv, er manden død.

175 pages, Hardcover

First published November 2, 2023

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.