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  • Published: 24 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9781641293204
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $50.00

The Boy in the Suitcase (Deluxe Edition)



The four-time New York Times bestselling Danish crime fiction sensation, a modern classic of Nordic noir, reissued in a gorgeous deluxe edition for its tenth anniversary. Includes reading group guide, a new foreword by the authors, and a short story following Nina Borg on yet another dangerous, life-saving adventure.

The four-time New York Times bestselling Danish crime fiction sensation, a modern classic of Nordic noir, reissued in a gorgeous deluxe edition for its tenth anniversary. Includes reading group guide, new foreword, and other exclusive content.

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: 24 January 2023
  • ISBN: 9781641293204
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $50.00

Praise for The Boy in the Suitcase (Deluxe Edition)

"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 . . . The first collaborative effort of Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis, and it packs an almighty punch."--The New York Times Book Review, Notable Crime Book of 2011