Why a Booktrail?
2000s: A dead art historian. Cold War skulduggery.
A reluctant Danish sleuth. And an extremely hungry dog.
Helle’s Hound
What you need to know before your trail
Dame Charlotte Lazerton – eminent art historian and mentor of Danish academic Torben Helle – is dead. And to make things worse, she was found partially eaten by her Irish wolfhound, Mortimer. While the police believe that she died of natural causes, Torben becomes convinced that Charlotte was murdered, although as usual no one pays any attention to him. That is, until he gains the confidence of a policeman who has watched too many Nordic Noir television shows and is ready to listen to any Scandinavian in a fetching woolly jumper.
Aided by his old friend Leyla, Torben soon realises that there are plenty of people who might have wanted Dame Charlotte dead, from her competitors for a prestigious academic presidency to old enemies from her time in intelligence during the Cold War. One thing is for sure: Torben Helle is woefully unqualified to catch a killer, and the killer knows it…
Locations
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London
Oskar says:
London, eh? Hardly the most exotic or original of locations. Yet no two people know the same London. Everyone’s is their own. And two appear on my map. One is the world that Torben knows, the universities, libraries, pubs, restaurants. The five-a-side football pitches. The other is the world he is up against. The seats of power, institutions of finance and politics and culture. When I plotted the worlds on the map, the way each clusters, barely overlapping, became evident. But not surprising. Because Torben’s London is my London, centred on Bloomsbury. And it reflects a reality. That this ancient city is less a single whole, than a patchwork of knit-together neighbourhoods.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Helle’s Hound
Destination/Location: London Author/Guide: Oskar Jensen Departure: 2000s
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