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  • Published: 15 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9781616954918
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 338
  • RRP: $19.99

The Boy in the Suitcase




The heart-stopping New York Times bestselling Danish thriller--now only $9.99!

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can’t say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.


Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy’s are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.

  • Published: 15 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9781616954918
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 338
  • RRP: $19.99

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Praise for The Boy in the Suitcase

  • A New York Times Bestseller and Notable Crime Book of 2011
  • Indie Next List, November 2011
  • Winner of the Harald Morgensen Award for Best Danish Thriller of the Year
  • Nominee for the Strand Magazine Critics Award, Barry Award Best First Novel, & Glass Key Crime Fiction Award
  • "Here's something you don't often see in Nordic noir fiction--a novel written by two women about the criminal mistreatment of women and children, compassionately told from a feminine perspective and featuring female characters you can believe in . . . and it packs an almighty punch."--The New York Times Book Review, Notable Crime Book of 2011
  • "Fans of Nordic crime fiction, rejoice: Something is rotten in Denmark. But never fear, Red Cross nurse Nina Borg is on the case . . . A wild ride."--New York Post
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