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Support for the Danish Refugee Council.

Six different crime stories with murder as a theme, all written by Danish crime writers. Read them and be surprised

The crime anthology is written by six well-known authors, including a single author couple. They all have crime as their focal point. The stories vary greatly in both quality and length.

Here I would especially like to highlight Elsebeth Egholm's: “The One Who Digs”. The main character of the book is the boy Anton, almost 13 years old, who has been removed from his family. Now he has been placed in foster care. The foster parents are also responsible for three other children, and when Anton, who was previously happy and welcoming, suddenly shows a more introverted behavior at work, the family comes into the spotlight. Not least because the husband has a very unsympathetic appearance, while the wife almost blends in with the wallpaper.

The story in particular has what I think makes a crime novel worth reading. Namely a good plot, lots of human insight. Anton is described in great detail, and at the same time there is also a good depiction of the environment, especially Anton's workplace where you sense that they take good care of him. The opposite is true of the foster parents.

Not that the other stories aren't good, but it touched something in me, which is why the focus landed there. People are always more affected when a crime story is about a child, I think. The very different stories are also interesting because they deal with several different issues in Danish society today. Both kidnapping, terror and assault on women and children are included here. It is also a different way of presenting crime, 50 pages sets a limit on how complicated a case can become.

The anthology is easy to read and is also divided into six stories of approximately 50 pages. So you can just read one story at a time. In addition, part of the profit from the sale of the book goes to a good cause, namely the Danish Refugee Council.