num_pages: 390
description: On All Hallows' Eve ex-convict Peter Boutrup is visiting his best friend's grave when her estranged mother appears. Her son Magnus has disappeared and she begs Peter to look for him.The next day a young nun is pulled out of the moat at the convent in Djursland. She has been garrotted and Peter who works there as a carpenter was the last person to see her alive. Meanwhile diver Kir Rjel finds an old box resting on the seabed. Inside are human bones. They are sixty years old but the victim had also been garrotted.While Peter is looking for Magnus Detective Mark Bille Hansen is assigned to the case. He is determined to link the bones in the box with the girl in the moat - but the hunt for the truth leads both he and Peter down a path so dark they fear they may never return.
language: Danish
title: De døde sjæles nat
publisher: Politikens Forlag