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Book cover for "The boy in the suitcase".
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English
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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.
 
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Book cover for "Death of a nightingale".
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Nina Borg volume 3
Language:
English
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From the Nordic noir duo who brought you The New York Times bestseller The Boy in the Suitcase comes a chilling new thriller with a mystery seventy-years in the making.
Nina. Natasha. Olga. Three women united by one terrifying secret. But only one of them has killed to keep it.
Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian woman who has been convicted for the attempted murder of her Danish ex-fiancé, escapes police custody on her...
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Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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"Centered around Madeline Karno, an ambitious young woman eager to shatter the confines of 1890s France, this novel is a gripping mystery that takes the reader on a captivating journey to find the cause behind a series of suspicious deaths" --
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Red Cross nurse Nina Borg risks her marriage to assist her friend Peter at a camp of mysteriously ill Roma refugee children whose circumstances prove more complicated and dangerous than originally believed.
Book cover for "The considerate killer".
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Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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"On her way home from a grocery shopping trip, Nina Borg is attacked from behind in a parking lot. Dazed and half-conscious, she hears her assailant ask for her forgiveness. Only later does she understand that this isn't for what he's just done, but for what he plans to do to. As a Red Cross nurse, Nina typically finds herself fighting for others' lives, not her own. For the first time, she's the primary target of a hit, and it slowly dawns on her...
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Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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"New York Times bestselling author Lene Kaaberbøl returns with her beloved protagonist Madeleine Karno--an ambitious young woman who shatters the confines of nineteenth century France as she struggles to become the first female forensic pathologist and hunt down what appears to be a Jack the Ripper copycat. On June 2nd, 1894, in the wake of President Marie Francois Sadi Carnot's assassination, France descends into chaos and riots in the streets of...
Book cover for "The Shamer's signet".
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Publisher:
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date:
2005
Language:
English
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When eleven-year-old Dina, who recently inherited her mother's gift of perceiving secret shames through eye contact, is kidnapped and forced to shame enemies of the evil Valdracu, her fifteen-year-old brother Davin rides to her aid.
Book cover for "The Shamer's daughter".
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Publisher:
Henry Holt
Pub. Date:
2004
Language:
English
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After her mother, a Shamer, is summoned to Dunark for a mission, ten-year-old Dina is forced to use her own special powers as she is caught up in an adventure of political intrigue and survival.
Book cover for "The Shamer's war / Lene Kaaberbol".
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Publisher:
Henry Holt
Pub. Date:
2006
Language:
English
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Dina, a Shamer, and her friend Nico, the legitimate heir to the lordship of Dunark, lead a dangerous rebellion against Drakan, the ruthless Dragon Lord who is hunting down Shamers to burn at the stake.
Book cover for "The serpent gift".
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Publisher:
H. Holt
Pub. Date:
2006
Language:
English
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As her brother Davin is unjustly confined to a prison and looks for a way to escape, Dina, now twelve years old, meets her father and learns whether she shares his serpent gift of having the ability to give people dreams.