A woman dies, a girl disappears.
Journalist Kajsa Coren lives with her husband, police officer Karsten, on an idyllic island in Norway. But the whole town is thrown into turmoil when Sissel is found dead – a woman in her mid-thirties who hadn’t spoken in years but observed everything from her window and written everything down on little pieces of paper. What did Sissel see, and why did she have to die? When a girl suddenly disappears and Karsten gets nowhere with his investigations, Kajsa gets involved…
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.
