Paperback: Two brutal killings and a missing boy are only the beginning...
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.
Dead Souls (2014) is the second book in the thrilling and brutal ex-convict Peter Boutrup series. It is translated from the Danish by Charlotte Barslund and Don Bartlett.
About the author: Elsebeth Egholm is a best-selling Danish author and journalist who lives in Jutland, Denmark. She has written ten books and in 2011, published Three Dog Night which was the start of a new series introducing ex-convict Peter Boutrup and was an instant bestseller. She is known internationally as the creator of the 10-episode television series Those Who Kill (2012), first broadcast in Denmark as Dem som dræber (2011). Dicte, a series about a heroine journalist Dicte Svendson's exploits, was first broadcast in Denmark in 2013. There are now six novels in this best-selling series. Translation rights to the Dicte Svendsen series have been sold in Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Norway, Iceland and France. Elsebeth Egholm lives in Aarhus, Denmark.
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