The Butterfly House

''The Butterfly House is an original and absorbing piece of work . . . Engberg''s novels are bestsellers in Denmark and she is a name to look out for'' SUNDAY TIMES

From the internationally bestselling author of The Tenant, which Kathy Reichs called a ''stunning debut'', comes a gripping new thriller featuring investigators Jeppe K¿rner and Anette Werner.

In the coronary care unit at one of Copenhagen''s leading medical centres, a nurse fills a syringe with an overdose of heart medication and stealthily enters the room of an older male patient.

Six days earlier, a paperboy on his route in the centre of the city stumbles upon a macabre find: the body of a dead woman, lying in a fountain, her arms marked with small incisions. Cause of death? Exsanguination - the draining of all the blood in her body. Clearly, this is no ordinary murder.

Jeppe K¿rner, recovering from a painful divorce and in