The Boy in the Suitcase (Nina Borg Book 1)
Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can’t say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.
Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy’s are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.
Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can’t say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.
Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy’s are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.
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Complicated The bad: The story was hard to follow both because there were a lot of characters, most with names that were odd enough (not American) and similar, and that sometimes the writer referred to them by first name and sometimes last. There were some gaps that I couldn’t fill in, although one of my book club members filled the rest of us in. It was hard to make those connections. The good: It was clear who the bad guys were and who the good guys were. It showed the lawlessness in that part of…
I read this on Kindle, and there were some formatting issues (accented letters not appearing correctly) and choices (the first few words of new sections/chapters were a lighter color than the rest) that were a bit distracting, but I am not considering them in this review. There are also a few odd choices of phrase, which I attribute to this being a translated book (the story takes place primarily in Denmark, where it was originally published).I was a bit lost at the beginning of the…