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21C: A key left in the Copenhagen train station leads to a shocking discovery
The Boy in the Suitcase
What you need to know before your trail
Nina Borg is a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two and always there to help out a friend, old or new. So when Karin leaves her a key to a locker in Copenhagen’s train station she thinks nothing of it. However, the locker contains a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.
Just who is this young boy? A victim of child trafficking? And what about Karin? Where is she now?
When Karin is found dead, what Nina can do now and what does this mean for the poor little boy?
Travel Guide
Walking into the train station at Copenhagen is where the story starts and its a gruesome way to acquaint yourself with the city of Copenhagen. A child trapped in a locker – a key given by a friend who gives no explanation as to why she is giving you the key. The discovery of what happens to the boy and just who killed Karin takes Nina on a trek across Denmark.
Who is trying to track him down?
“She opened her eyes in time to see a stooping figure reel across the street and continue on the direction of the Central Station. Above Reventlowsgade’s numerous streetlights, the sky was brightening to pale grey.”
The mystery deepens when she tries to find out more about the boy,scared as she is to give him over to the authorities (for what will happen to him?)
A lithuanian speaking prostitute provides the help she needs –
It was more than six hours before she could meet the girl from Helgolandsgade and in a little while, the sun would begin the process of turning Vesterbro into a diesel-sticking oven.
This kidnapper is one who ‘ steals children’ . Grim, nasty and an insight into how immigrant children in Denmark are being targeted. A gritty and chilling read into Denmark’s underbelly and a view of Copenhagen you will remember for its plausibility and horror that such child abduction schemes do exist.
The contrast between the Danish and Lithuanian communities and settings is to show two very different peoples and cultures and one trapped in the other. Visit Vilnius to see the real Lithuania and Copenhagen to see the real Denmark. You wont want to stay in this version very long. It’s a dark dark tour of the darkest side of the Danish city.
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