All Things Hidden
Time to learn about house decoration – and a lot of other things. Come along to the vegetable garden, behind the mirror, and on a trip to Paris. A Paris filled with memories and dance, and more revelations than they bargained for. Up close and personal.
‘The devil would I toil all day for a few kroner when in an hour one could steal several hundred.’ That’s one way of seeing things, and it shouldn’t lead to murder. But it does. And even a dog gets involved.
As always, a trip back to Copenhagen 1910 and more than one murder. Real ones.
With illustrations!
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Review by Birgitte Zimling
The salmon mousse was poisoned, the poachers can also be criminals, a camera isn’t just a camera, and a honeymoon isn’t just a honeymoon.
You won’t be bored for a second, and there’s a naturalness to inventing a metal detector when searching for jewellery buried in a kitchen garden. Reality surpasses imagination, and it’s all told so vividly that you really wouldn’t want to meet those fishermen in Esbjerg—you’ll have to read the book yourself; the atmosphere can’t be explained, and that’s the beauty of Freya Anduin’s books. The language isn’t just words but also sounds, smells, and the bruises you suddenly feel you have.
I love Anna and Christian and all the others—even the villains—and am constantly surprised by what is fiction and what is clever reality.
Just hop on the bandwagon—you won’t regret it.
Birgitte Zimling
Jannik Lunn at Krimimessen (The Crime Fair)
The fourth installment of Freya Anduin’s crime series about Lendorph and LaCour: “Retribution and Garnier” is still set in 1910. In this volume, the relationship between Lendorph and LaCour has grown so close that they decide to marry, although Anna is not keen on being Christian’s stay-at-home wife.
Apart from a series of crimes that LaCour is called to investigate, supplemented by Lendorph as a photographer, their life also includes a trip to Paris. This journey serves both as a honeymoon and an opportunity for Christian to meet Police Prefect Louis Lépine, a highly decorated individual and friend of the French President. Lépine was the man who had modernized the entire Parisian detective corps.
During the trip, Christian also encounters old acquaintances from the criminal underworld and revisits the Paris where he had a brief career as a ballet dancer in his youth. Upon their return to Copenhagen, new murder cases await Lendorph and LaCour, and several crimes from the previous volumes are either solved or remain unsolved. Towards the end, Anna quits her job at Aftenbladet, hinting that she and Christian might appear in future volumes as private detectives.
As in the other volumes, the book includes a gallery of characters, indicating which ones are based on real people. The author also explains how she has temporally adjusted certain spectacular murders to fit the storyline. Like the first three volumes, Freya Anduin has once again crafted an engaging tale that partially draws on real-life events.