Awarded Best Crime Novel of the Year Diploma from the Danish Crime Academy.
Nominated for the Glass Key.
The maimed and tortured body of a nineteen-year-old girl turns up on the lush Danish island of Funen. “Bled to death,” concludes medical examiner Maria Krause. But an orange-red smear on the victim’s neck raises some alarming questions: it’s a side effect of treatment for leprosy, which hasn’t been seen in these parts since 1913.
Then another bomb drops: Dr. Krause suddenly claims the girl is her daughter Emily. Weirder still, Krause has no daughter, only a very twisted imagination. It’s up to forensic chemist Nkem Osakwe, Krause’s Nigerian sidekick, to track down the real truth. But even the unflappable Nkem can’t save the good doctor from herself . . .
Nominated for the Glass Key.
The maimed and tortured body of a nineteen-year-old girl turns up on the lush Danish island of Funen. “Bled to death,” concludes medical examiner Maria Krause. But an orange-red smear on the victim’s neck raises some alarming questions: it’s a side effect of treatment for leprosy, which hasn’t been seen in these parts since 1913.
Then another bomb drops: Dr. Krause suddenly claims the girl is her daughter Emily. Weirder still, Krause has no daughter, only a very twisted imagination. It’s up to forensic chemist Nkem Osakwe, Krause’s Nigerian sidekick, to track down the real truth. But even the unflappable Nkem can’t save the good doctor from herself . . .
