Part of Series
Under en storm i Middelhavet mellem Malta og søsterøen Gozo kæntrer en flygtningebåd fra Libyen. Dicte og kæresten Bo er på vej til Gozo med et hold fotoelever og bliver vidner til katastrofen. Bos mønsterelev, Natasha, klikker løs med kameraet og indfanger både færgens søsyge passagerer, de døde afrikanere i havet og overraskelsen: liget af en ung, hvid kvinde, der flyder i bølgerne mellem sorte mænd. Da Bo og Natasha senere forsvinder, kæder Dicte og den lokale efterforsker Jack Spiteri det sammen med Natashas fotos. En af færgens passagerer ligner nemlig til forveksling den døde kvinde i havet. Og da Natashas lig findes for foden af klipperne, mens Bo er pist væk, stiller spørgsmålene sig for alvor i kø: Hvem er de to identiske piger, og hvorfor skulle den ene dø? Hvad er det for en viden, der har kostet Natasha livet? For at kende Bos skæbne, er Dicte nødt til at arbejde tæt sammen med en mand, hun er mere end tiltrukket af. Efterforskningen kører op i gear, da liget af endnu en ung pige skyller op på Siciliens kyst, og en samvittighedsplaget Dicte må forholde sig til den gamle sandhed, at hvide liv tillægges større værdi, end sorte.
Author
Bestselling Danish novelist Elsebeth Egholm began her career behind the keyboards of a piano. She was a student of music as a performer at The Royal Academy of Music and at the Department of Musicology at the University of Aarhus, before she changed instrument and enrolled at the Danish School of Journalism, also based in her hometown of Aarhus. She spent a few years working for a daily newspaper, but by 1992 she was living with future husband, the late British author Philip Nicholson, in the Maltese island of Gozo, working as a freelance writer. Eventually she began making a name for herself as the author of a string of well crafted short stories published in women's magazines in both Denmark and the other Nordic countries. Her first novel had three long time friends mourning the death of a fourth and facing a mysterious stranger. ‘The Free Women's Club' was published in 1999 to unanimous acclaim. In ‘Scirocco' (2000) and ‘Opium' (2001) she moved into the darker corners of family and marriage, and combined a fullgrown plot with an engaging dose of international suspense. Then, in 2002, she introduced full time journalist and part time sleuth Dicte Svendsen in ‘Hidden Errors', a novel about a dead baby found in a creek in the middle of big city Aarhus. By the second and third book in the series, ‘Own Risk' (2004) and ‘Personal Damage' (2005), both author and heroine were well known and highly treasured in her homeland. ‘Next of Kin' was published in 2006, dramatically outselling the previous novels, and Elsebeth Egholm found herself published, or about to be published, in Germany, Holland, Sweden and Norway. Afterwards, in 2008, the novel 'Life and Limb' reached the bookshelves followed by 'Against All Odds' i 2009. 'Three Dog Night' was published i 2011. Currently Elsebeth Egholm divides her time between living in Aarhus, as does Dicte Svendsen, and on the Maltese island of Gozo.
