num_pages: 352
description: Detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner return in this thriller as they race to solve a series of sordid murders linked to some of the most vulnerable patients in a Danish hospital.Hospitals are supposed to be places of healing. But in the coronary care unit at one of Copenhagens leading medical centers a nurse fills a syringe with an overdose of heart medication and stealthily enters the room of an older male patient.Six days earlier a paperboy on his route in central Copenhagen stumbles upon a macabre find: the naked body of a dead woman lying in a fountain with arms marked with small incisions. Cause of death? Exsanguinationthe draining of all the blood in her body.Clearly this is no ordinary murder. Lead Investigator Jeppe Korner recovering from a painful divorce and in the throes of a new relationship takes on the investigation. His partner Anette Werner now on maternity leave after an unexpected pregnancy is restless at home with a demanding newborn and an equally demanding husband. While Jeppe pounds the streets looking for answers Anette decides to do a little freelance sleuthing. But operating on her own exposes her to dangers she cant even begin to fathom.As the investigation ventures into dark corners it uncovers the ambition and greed that festers beneath the surface of caregiving institutionsall the more shocking for their depravityand what Jeppe and Anette discover will turn their blood as cold as ice.
language: English
title: The Butterfly House
publisher: Gallery/Scout Press