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When a human skeleton, with an animal skull instead of a head, turns up in Copenhagen, investigator Christian Porsing is immediately drawn into the case, but there are no clues to go on.

Die 27-jährige Malin Askehave ist Frontfrau der erfolgreichen Band Gaia 5 und engagiert sich leidenschaftlich im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel. Gleichzeitig ist sie der jüngste Spross und die Erbin des international agierenden Reedereiunternehmens Askehave Shipping, das lukrative Geschäfte mit der Ölförderung in der Nordsee betreibt. Gemeinsam mit ihrem älteren Bruder Robert hat Malin acht Jahre zuvor ihrer Familie den Rücken gekehrt und nutzt die Popularität ihrer Band, um auf die Folgen des Klimawandels aufmerksam zu machen, den Unternehmen wie Askehave Shipping zu verantworten haben.

A woman is found murdered. Her eyes have been removed with surgical precision. A man holds a private dinner party in a fashionable part of town. Again and again… Copenhagen's most dedicated police detective, Lars Winkler, has his hands full with the gruesome murder. But the investigation is not his only challenge; his wife has just left him, his daughter is rebelling, and he is being watched by enemies inside his own department…

The second book in the thrilling series about Detective Inspector Lars Winkler–Serafine is a murderous story about the abuse of power. 1999: In a Danish refugee centre, a little boy finds his 14-year-old older sister dead with a naked man on top of her, staring back at him. 2013: The Mayor of Copenhagen is found dead in his mansion. A shocked young woman of foreign descent is found on the scene. The only information she will give the police; her name–Serafine.

On a rainy Sunday evening in February, two men are executed with a machine gun in a car in Copenhagen. The murder weapon leads the investigative team and police detective Lars Winkler to the rocker crowd. Journalist Louise has traveled to Vietnam to track down her biological mother. Whilst there she hears about a Danish company with a patent for a new—and not entirely harmless—variety of rice. When Louise returns home to Denmark, her apartment has been broken into. Someone is after her.

A corpse is found in a snow-covered Tivoli Gardens one night five days before Christmas. Stabbed to death, strapped to the bottom of the gondola. The investigation is complicated when the wife of one of the suspects is accused of attempted murder in Christiania. Meanwhile, her family is falling apart, but a dark secret hangs over the family, and no one wants to talk to the police. Police Detective Lars Winkler must navigate a dark labyrinth of conflicting interests and a repressed past.

Nach dem gewaltsamen Tod ihres Vaters ist Malin Askehave als CEO in das Familienunternehmen eingetreten, um seine "grüne" Strategie weiter zu verfolgen. Das Wissen um die schmutzige Vergangenheit des Unternehmens erfüllt sie mit Zweifeln: Soll sie damit an die Öffentlichkeit treten und Verantwortung übernehmen oder muss sie alles tun, um den Fortbestand von Askehave Shipping zu sichern?

Malin is the youngest scion in the Askehave family, who own Denmark's second-largest shipping group, and also the one that their father wishes as CEO after him. However, Malin and her brother, Robert, the director of Climate Action Network Europe, have broken off all contact with the family years ago. They are deeply engaged in the struggle against climate change. Malin Askehave is now the lead singer of the internationally popular R&B band, Gaia 5.

During an arrest of two climbing thieves at the Hotel Continental on Nørrebrogade in Copenhagen, Nanna Christoffersen, police assistant in the burglary department at Bellahøj Police, steals a statue of the Hindu god Kali. But both criminal masterminds and the intelligence service will do everything to get hold of the statue, and soon Nanna is being hunted wildly.

When a bomb explodes and the body of left-wing journalist, and Winkler's old friend, Thorbjørn Lehbæk is found at the scene questions quickly arise; was the bomb related to the current EU summit in Copenhagen? Did Thorbjørn set off the bomb, or was he a victim of terrorism? Winkler's secret past, and his friendship with Thorbjørn, creeps uncomfortably close during the investigation… Did their friendship really end over a woman?

The ghetto settlement Oksevænget on Bellahøj in Copenhagen has long been in the media's focus with crime, ethnic tensions and social problems. But with a long, tough effort, the municipality and the residents' association have succeeded in reversing the downward spiral. The Danish People's Party's mayor in Copenhagen, Kristian Havholm, wants to enter national politics, and together with his special adviser, he plans to visit the area.