Kajsa Coren is actually a TV journalist, but she has retreated to the coast of Møre to write a book. Then, however, a German is murdered who has been spending his vacation in the area for many years and always stayed with old Jenny. The old woman’s grief seems to go far beyond the usual consternation. Kajsa begins to investigate – and stumbles upon an incredible story that seems to be linked not only to the events under German occupation, but also to her own past…
An unusual murder case, the clues to which lead deep into the German-Norwegian history.
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.
