Dead souls / Elsebeth Egholm.

By: Egholm, Elsebeth, 1960- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Peter Boutrup ; 2.Publisher: London : Headline, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 439 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0755398149; 9780755398140 (paperback)Subject(s): Detective and mystery stories, Danish | Missing persons -- Fiction | Murder -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Suspense fiction | Denmark -- FictionGenre/Form: Suspense fiction. | Mystery fiction. DDC classification: 839.8138 Summary: On All Hallows' Eve, ex-convict Peter Boutrup is visiting his best friend's grave when her estranged mother appears. Her son, Magnus, has disappeared, and she begs Peter to look for him. The next day a young nun is pulled out of the moat at the convent in Djursland. She has been garrotted and Peter, who works there as a carpenter, was the last person to see her alive. Meanwhile, diver Kir Rojel finds an old box resting on the seabed. Inside are human bones. They are sixty years old, but the victim had also been garrotted. While Peter is looking for Magnus, Detective Mark Bille Hansen is assigned to the case. He is determined to link the bones in the box with the girl in the moat - but the hunt for the truth leads both he and Peter down a path so dark, they fear they may never return.
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Translated from the Danish.

On All Hallows' Eve, ex-convict Peter Boutrup is visiting his best friend's grave when her estranged mother appears. Her son, Magnus, has disappeared, and she begs Peter to look for him. The next day a young nun is pulled out of the moat at the convent in Djursland. She has been garrotted and Peter, who works there as a carpenter, was the last person to see her alive. Meanwhile, diver Kir Rojel finds an old box resting on the seabed. Inside are human bones. They are sixty years old, but the victim had also been garrotted. While Peter is looking for Magnus, Detective Mark Bille Hansen is assigned to the case. He is determined to link the bones in the box with the girl in the moat - but the hunt for the truth leads both he and Peter down a path so dark, they fear they may never return.

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