The Butterfly House

Detectives Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner from the #1 international bestseller The Tenant—which New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs heralded as a “stunning debut”—return in this compulsively readable 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 Copenhagen’s 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 earliera paperboy on his route in central Copenhagen stumbles upon a macabre find: the naked body of a dead womanlying in a fountain with arms marked with small incisions. Cause of death? Exsanguination—the draining of all the blood in her body. Clearlythis is no ordinary murder. Lead Investigator Jeppe Kørnerrecovering from a painful divorce and in the throes of a new relationshiptakes on the investigation. His partnerAnette Wernernow on maternity leave after an unexpected pregnancyis restless at home with a demanding newborn and an equally demanding husband. While Jeppe pounds the streets looking for answersAnette decides to do a little freelance sleuthing. But operating on her own exposes her to dangers she can’t even begin to fathom. As the investigation ventures into dark cornersit uncovers the ambition and greed that festers beneath the surface of caregiving institutions—all the more shocking for their depravity—and what Jeppe and Anette discover will turn their blood as cold as ice….