At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. Shw vows not to go mad. She will not give her captors the satisfaction. She will die first.
Copenhagen detective Carl Moerck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. Everyone says she's dead. Everyone says it's a waste of time. He thinks they're right.
The voice in the dark is distorted, harsh and without mercy. It says the prisoner's torture will only end when she answers one simple question. It is one she has asked herself a million times: Why is this happening?
Copenhagen detective Carl Moerck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. Everyone says she's dead. Everyone says it's a waste of time. He thinks they're right.
The voice in the dark is distorted, harsh and without mercy. It says the prisoner's torture will only end when she answers one simple question. It is one she has asked herself a million times: Why is this happening?
Jussi Adler-Olsen, geb. am 2.8.1950 in Kopenhagen, studierte Medizin, Soziologie, Politische Geschichte und Film und arbeitete in vielen verschiedenen Berufen. Er gilt als bestverkaufter dänischer Krimiautor. Jussi Adler-Olsen ist verheiratet und Vater eines Sohnes. 2014 wurde er mit dem Ripper-Award, dem Europäischen Preis für Kriminalliteratur, ausgezeichnet.
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