The Lake

The fourth book in the Konrad Simonsen series (after The Vanished) from the Danish sister-and-brother writing team exposes a darker side of Denmark. An African woman's body is found in a lake north of Copenhagen, and when a local police officer's racist comment goes viral, the case is handed over to Detective Superintendent Simonsen of the Copenhagen Police. It soon becomes clear that the victim was part of a much larger operation involving human trafficking and prostitution. Svend Lerche and his wife, Karina Larsen, along with their adult daughter Benedikte, have made it their very profitable family business and will go to great lengths to protect themselves and their money. As the machinations of this brutal world come to light and inevitably involve many prominent people, Simonsen and his team must figure out how to find justice for the trafficked women.