Mrs Mortensen Investigates

Quand les bénévoles d'une brocante danoise meurent les uns après les autres, la police évoque la fatalité. Mais Mrs Mortensen, retraitée futée et son teckel Mortensen III flairent un tueur en série.

In a sleepy Danish town, death lurks amongst the dusty bric-a-brac...The elderly volunteers at the second-hand shop keep dying. Heart attacks. Strokes. A simple case of old age, say the police. Sad but inevitable.Newly retired Mrs Mortensen begs to differ. This "Danish Miss Marple" and her loyal dachshund, Mortensen III, sniff a sinister pattern at work.Armed with a fierce sense of justice and a fondness for tea and cake, Anne-Maj launches her own investigation. The further she probes into local gossip and small-town grudges, the more certain she is that someone is killing the shop's volunteers, one by one. But how-and why?Can this amateur sleuth outwit a murderer before there's another "accidental" death-possibly even her own?Move over Scandi-Noir: this is Danish crime like you've never seen it before. Perfect for fans of humorous, character-driven whodunnits, Scandinavian mysteries and Hannah Hendy's "The Dinner Lady Detectives".Anne Grue is a bestselling Danish crime novelist, creator of TV-adapted detective Dan Sommerdahl, now turning to humorous Danish cosy crime with amateur sleuth Mrs Mortensen.