Television journalist Kajsa Coren is making a documentary about her mother when she hears rumours about mis-administered medication and suspicious deaths at the nursing home where Bibbi is staying. When nurse Ingrid is brutally murdered, Kajsa no longer points her camera at her mother alone. What did Ingrid know about the sudden deaths in the home – and was it precisely this knowledge that had become her undoing? Kajsa’s unease grows when a ten-year-old boy disappears without a trace from the soccer field in front of the nursing home. She has no idea how close this case will touch her…
Trude Teige
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In 2015, When Grandma Danced in the Rain was published and cemented Trude Teige among international bestselling authors. The novel tells the story of Juni who returns to the house of her deceased grandparents on a small Norwegian island where she discovers a photograph: it shows her grandmother Tekla as a young woman with a German soldier. Juni can no longer ask anyone about it, so the search for the truth takes her to Berlin and to the small town of Demmin in eastern Germany, where hundreds of families committed suicide in May 1945. Juni realises that this is about much more than a secret love. Inspired by actual people and events, the book was nominated for the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize. It became one of the bestselling books in Germany in 2023 and remained on the bestseller lists for over a year. Teige counted among Norway’s top-selling authors for all of 2024. As of 2025, more than 1.5 million copies of the author’s works have been sold worldwide.
