A bone is found in the Nordmarka forest in Norway.
Journalist Kajsa Coren is making a documentary about her university friend Anki, who recently moved back into her parents’ house in Oslo and claims to have been raped in her own bed. No neighbour has seen any sign of an intruder. When more cases occur with the same pattern, it is clear: a serial killer is on the loose. But what does all this have to do with the discovery of human remains in a forest area? As Kajsa uncovers the first answers, Anki suddenly disappears without a trace…
Trude Teige
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n 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.
