Under the Surface: The Murder of Journalist Kim Wall and the Search for Truth in the Submarine Case

by Christina Anderson

In August 2017, journalist Kim Wall went missing after boarding a Danish inventor’s submarine. As details of “the Submarine Case” emerged, the story made headlines around the world.  This is the riveting account of a brutal murder and the extraordinary investigation that brought the killer to justice.International freelance journalist Kim Wall had traveled to many dangerous places, reporting on the “undercurrents of rebellion,” but it was in Denmark, a few miles from her childhood home in Sweden, that her life was taken. Wall was on assignment, interviewing the celebrated entrepreneur/inventor Peter Madsen in his submarine, when he attacked and killed her.  Madsen, whose psychopathic rage fell under the radar of his many friends and supporters, was arrested the morning after but attempted to hide  the crime in a series of lies that shifted as more  evidence emerged. Ubådssagen—known internationally as “the Submarine Case”—unfolded like the most gruesome Nordic Noir. Through painstaking research, journalist Christina Anderson traces the case’s unfolding in Scandinavia, how it was reported, and how it illuminates larger misogyny, sexual violence, mental health, power, and ethics. Having covered the case for the New York Times starting from the day after the crime, and drawing on dozens of interviews with the investigative team, Anderson offers unparalleled access to the remarkable police work and trial. In these pages, she gives readers an exclusive glimpse behind the headlines, into the heart of the fight for justice in a murder case that sent shockwaves around the world.With sensitivity and scrupulous attention to detail, Under the Surface explores persistent sociological issues, pays tribute to Wall and honors the superlative team that stopped at nothing to expose the truth.  

272 pages, Kindle Edition

Expected publication January 2, 2079

About the author

Christina Anderson was born in 1992 in New Hamphire, USA. As a child, she became fascinated by the world beyond the pages of her books, and she began writing fiction in elementary school. Eventually, she began publishing with her high school literary magazine and became its co-editor during her senior year. In college, she worked at her campus's Writing Center and won the school's Excellence in Writing award in 2013.

Though her love of writing is clearly an influential part of her life and schooling, she majored in Elementary Education and Mathematics Education in college. She continues to write and plans on publishing more YA novels in the near future.