The Boy in the Suitcase

Scandinavian noir, this time from Denmark. This was the first of four novels in the Nina Borg series. A super-wealthy Danish man sends his assistant to the train station lockers to pick up a package. It’s a suitcase with a three-year old boy inside, asleep and drugged. His assistant, paralyzed about......more

A three-year old Lithuanian boy is kidnapped;his single mother tries desperately to find him. Meanwhile, in Denmark, a nurse named Nina Borg finds him in a suitcase and sets out to find his family. Will mother and child be reunited? The point of view skips between various characters and countries. Th......more

I liked the story line but that's about it. I don't think it was executed well enough for my tastes or maybe I am judging this book rather harshly after just reading two great books. This is a list of problems I had with this book: 1)I did not like the way the characters were introduced in the book.......more

Initial thoughts: What an intriguing read! While I predicted the twist from approximately halfway through, I still greatly enjoyed the journey. This book is very fast paced and much easier to read than other Nordic Noir fiction I've read. --- Synopsis Nina Borg's old friend Karin gives her a key......more

Remember "it was a dark and stormy night ..." the headline that grabs your attention and leaves you a little jumpy, wondering what's around the next corner? That's THIS book! I loved this book literally AT THE TITLE. I wanted to know - what boy? Why was he in a suitcase? Alive? Or Not? This book is......more