Heidi Amsinck

A missing child ... a tainted witness ... Jensen's darkest case yet ... Dark deeds and deep secrets abound in Heidi Amsinck's Copenhagen. A white-knuckle ride into hell. — IAN RANKIN. Amsinck's Copenhagen-set crime series is reliably excellent. — MAIL ON SUNDAY. Relentless tension pulses through every page of this meticulously plotted thriller. — THOMAS ENGER. Matilde Clausen, 9, vanishes...

Not all little old ladies are so innocent… When ninety-year-old Irene Valborg is found brutally murdered in an affluent suburb of Copenhagen, her diamond necklace missing, it looks like a burglary gone wrong. When two more victims are attacked, the police lament a rise in violence against the elderly, but who is the young girl in the photo found by...

Copenhagen is a mysterious city where strange and sinister things often happen. Menacing and at times darkly humorous, there are echoes of Roald Dahl and Daphne du Maurier in these stories, many of which have been specially commissioned for BBC Radio 4. From the commuter who bitterly regrets falling asleep on a late-night train in Last Train to Helsingør, to...

A headless corpse … a missing person … case closed? June, and as Copenhagen swelters under record temperatures, a headless corpse surfaces in the murky harbour, landing a new case on DI Henrik Jungersen’s desk just as his holiday is about to start. Elsewhere in the city, Syrian refugee Aziz Almasi, chauffeur to Esben Nørregaard MP, has gone missing, without...