The Boy in the Suitcase
Red Cross nurse Nina Borg opens a left-luggage locker at the Copenhagen train station as a favor to a desperate friend, and finds a drugged three-year-old boy stuffed inside the suitcase. The friend disappears before she can ask any questions. The boy speaks no Danish. Nina starts moving him from safe house to safe house while a Lithuanian assassin closes in, a Vilnius mother searches for her stolen son, and a Copenhagen real-estate developer protects the trafficking pipeline he funded. Kaaberbol and Friis wrote the book as the first Nina Borg novel in 2008, and the series ran four books across Danish bestseller lists.
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A Danish Red Cross nurse finds a drugged three-year-old boy in a Copenhagen train-station suitcase and pulls a Lithuanian trafficking ring into the open in this co-written Nordic noir debut.
The Boy in the Suitcase was co-written by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis and originally published in Danish in 2008. It is the first book in the Nina Borg series, a Scandinavian crime series with social-worker protagonist.
Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis wrote four Nina Borg novels: The Boy in the Suitcase, Invisible Murder, Death of a Nightingale, and The Considerate Killer. The series is complete.
The Boy in the Suitcase is a standalone novel by Lene Kaaberbol, not part of a series.
The Boy in the Suitcase is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
