num_pages: 314
description: The award-winning true-crime account of a Danish nurse accused of killing her patientsand an examination of the controversial evidence used against her.In the early hours of March 1 2015 Danish police received an alarming call from a nurse at a provincial hospital. She suspected her colleague fellow nurse Christina Aistrup Hansen of deliberately killing patientsand she feared it had just happened again. Soon other coworkers revealed their own concerns about Hansen. Indeed some had been harboring suspicions about her for years . . .So why had no one come forward sooner? And with the alleged victims already cremated where was the evidence? Could this all be a case of small-town gossip snowballing out of control? Drawing on police and autopsy reports medical records private correspondence and testimony from key witnessesas well as Hansen herselfDanish journalist Kristian Corfixen reconstructs the fateful night shift in which three patients died under mysterious circumstances and the sensational trial it set in motion.Originally published in Denmark Corfixens acclaimed investigation of a disturbingly complex case raises critical concerns about the trust we put in our caretakers and the role of indicative evidence in criminal courts.
language: Danish
title: Sygeplejersken
publisher: Lindhard og Ringhof