Death of a Nightingale
Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis
ISBN: 9781616953041
Published: November, 2013
Pricing
Paperback $15.95
Description
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 of the attempted murder of her Danish fiancé, escapes police custody on her way to an interrogation in Copenhagen's police headquarters.
That night, the frozen, tort...
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 of the attempted murder of her Danish fiancé, escapes police custody on her way to an interrogation in Copenhagen’s police headquarters.
That night, the frozen, tortured body of Michael, the ex-fiancé, is found in a car, and the manhunt for Natasha escalates. It isn’t the first time the young Ukrainian woman has lost a partner to violent ends: her first husband was also murdered, three years earlier in Kiev, and in the same manner: tortured to death in a car.
Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg has been following Natasha’s case for several years now, since Natasha first took refuge at a crisis center where Nina works. Nina, who had tried to help Natasha leave her abusive fiancé more than once, just can’t see the young Ukrainian mother as a vicious killer. But in her effort to protect Natasha’s daughter and discover the truth, Nina realizes there is much she didn’t know about this woman and her past. The mystery has long and bloody roots, going back to a terrible famine that devastated Stalinist Ukraine in 1934, when a ten-year-old girl with the voice of a nightingale sang her family into shallow graves.
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“Artfully drawn characters who are a pleasure to know populate this writing pair’s third thriller featuring Danish nurse Nina Borg, who bonds with Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian refugee accused of murder.”
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2013
“[Nina] joins the sisterhood of run-amok heroines like Homeland's Carrie Mathison and Lisbeth Salander of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Nina doesn't just have a bee in her bonnet—she has a whole hive. And it's buzzing away in her latest adventure, Death of a Nightingale, an elaborately plotted page-turner that flits from today's liberal-minded Denmark and mobbed-up Ukraine to the starvation-racked Soviet Union of the Stalinist '30s.”
—John Powers, NPR's Fresh Air
“Death of a Nightingale is a gripping and elegant tapestry of a novel. A seamless weaving of psychological depth and rocket-paced plotting, the story hooked me in and the strong, complicated, and fascinating women at its center kept me utterly riveted cover-to-cover. Nina Borg is one of my new favorite heroines! ”
—Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of In the Blood
“Kaaberbøl and Friis are among the very best writers in the current crop of Scandinavian crime writers.”
—Glenn Harper, International Noir Fiction
“This is the third in the Nina Borg series, and this latest title certainly caters to the mystery (and slightly gory) reader.... Readers will discover the reason for the gory fable at the beginning, and by the end of the book, they’ll be cheering.”
—Suspense Magazine
“A stunning indictment of all that was wrong with Stalinist Russia...[and] a story that will leave the reader on the edge of the seat until the end.”
—Deadly Pleasures
“Required reading for fans of the burgeoning field of new Nordic suspense.”
—Kirkus on Death of a Nightingale
“Nina is an imperfect hero, which makes her all the more appealing.”
—The Boston Globe on Death of a Nightingale
“Nina is an imperfect hero, which makes her all the more appealing.”
The Boston Globe on Death of a Nightingale
“[The] latest Nina Borg mystery grips... A sense of mystery and threat looms large over the gloomy, ice-bound landscape. ”
—The Independent (UK)
“A moving story... [Kaaberbol and Friis] tell a socially conscious—and, at times, critical—tale about immigration issues that apply both to Denmark and the U.S. without sacrificing the urgency of the best thrillers. ”
—Oprah Magazine on Death of a Nightingale
“May be the best of the series.”
–Midwest Book Review
“This novel may be the best of the series.”