Name: The Butterfly House
ISBN: 9781982127619

Katrine Engberg

"A compelling new crime thriller featuring Copehhagen-based police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner, who work to solve a series of sordid murders that have roots in the care of vulnerable hospital patients and at-risk children -- and to expose a murderer who who specializes in cold, cold blood..."--

The Butterfly House

Glasvinge

Detectives Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner from the #1 international bestseller The Tenant—which New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs heralded as a “stunning debut”—return in this compulsively readable thriller as they race to solve a series of sordid murders linked to some of the most vulnerable patients in a Danish hospital. Hospitals are supposed to be places of healing. But in the coronary care unit at one of Copenhagen’s leading medical centers, a nurse fills a syringe with an overdose of heart medication and stealthily enters the room of an older male patient. Six days earlier, a paperboy on his route in central Copenhagen stumbles upon a macabre find: the naked body of a dead woman, lying in a fountain with arms marked with small incisions. Cause of death? Exsanguination—the draining of all the blood in her body. Clearly, this is no ordinary murder. Lead Investigator Jeppe Kørner, recovering from a painful divorce and in the throes of a new relationship, takes on the investigation. His partner, Anette Werner, now on maternity leave after an unexpected pregnancy, is restless at home with a demanding newborn and an equally demanding husband. While Jeppe pounds the streets looking for answers, Anette decides to do a little freelance sleuthing. But operating on her own exposes her to dangers she can’t even begin to fathom. As the investigation ventures into dark corners, it uncovers the ambition and greed that festers beneath the surface of caregiving institutions—all the more shocking for their depravity—and what Jeppe and Anette discover will turn their blood as cold as ice….

Lauren Attaway

The characters in this series are frequently as interesting to me as the crime scenes! This book was one that I could not put down until I finished, and I was happy to return to the lives of Anette, Jeppe and one of my new favorite hot mess aspiring writer Esther! Must read for fans of the the first in the series, and I look forward to the next one.

Logan Schenk

Rebekah Dickerson 

very enthralling mystery thriller! i want to read her other books now because of this one

Anna Bush

Ellie Graff

Helen Bright

Lørdag den 14. oktober. Rigshospitalets Hjertemedicinske Afdeling.

Sygeplejersken fylder engangssprøjten med en overdosis af hjertemedicinen Ajmelin og injicerer det i en ældre, besværlig mandlig patient.

Mandag seks dage tidligere. Et avisbud finder liget af en nøgen kvinde i et springvand på Strøget. Hun har snitsår på halsen, håndleddene og i lysken. Hvorfor skulle kvinden dø en så lidelsesfuld død?

Politiassistent Jeppe Kørner bliver sat på sagen uden sin vanlige makker. Anette Werner er nemlig på barsel. Eller det vil sige … ikke helt. Efterforskningen fører dem ind i sundhedssystemet, blandt patienter og behandlere, mennesker med enorm empati, sensible sjæle og store ambitioner.

Imens burde Esther de Laurenti være i færd med at skrive sin roman, men hun lider af tungsind og skriveblokering. Det bliver ikke bedre af, at hendes ven og bofælle, Gregers, bliver indlagt på Riget. Skal han dø?

Da ugen er omme, og datoen viser lørdag den 14. oktober, falder brikkerne i en tragisk og kompliceret sag på plads i en hæsblæsende finale. Og det hele ender ikke godt.

The Butterfly House

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