First published 2011
Nina Borg cannot refuse a call for help, even when it puts her family at risk. The Red Cross nurse and mother of two receives a locker key from Karin, a friend she barely speaks to anymore. Inside the Copenhagen train station locker, Nina discovers a suitcase containing a three-year-old boy. The child is naked, drugged, but breathing. Nina faces an impossible choice. The boy appears to be a trafficking victim, but turning him over to police might send him back to his captors. When Karin turns up murdered, Nina realizes someone wants both her and the child dead. She flees across Denmark with the boy, desperate to learn his identity and find him safety. Unknown enemies close in as Nina struggles to protect an innocent child while keeping her own family out of danger.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, race-against-time
Setting: Copenhagen, Denmark
Period: contemporary
313 pages · Hardcover · Soho Crime
Content warnings: trafficking