Roland Benito

An Italian detective in Denmark must stop a deadly Internet predator in this thrilling series debut available for the first time in English. On a rainy summer day in the Danish suburb of Brabrand, the body of a ten-year-old girl is found in a dumpster. Detective Inspector Roland Benito, having recently moved from Italy to Denmark, is immediately put on the case. When the crime is linked to an online chatroom where the murdered girl had a profile, the hunt for the killer is on. Reporter Anne Larsen and photographer Kamilla Holm are covering the investigation for the Daily News, but the closer they look, the more entangled they become. And things only get more complicated when a second child-the original victim's best friend-suddenly disappears. She too had a profile on the mysterious website. She too lied about her age. Dead in the Skip is a chilling story about the dark side of the Internet, where no one knows who's hiding behind that username . . . or what they're capable of.

The discovery of a decades-old murder leads DI Benito to a killer who's ready to strike again in this Danish crime thriller now available in English. In the swamp outside a small Danish village, two young boys make a gruesome discovery. Just below the surface of the water floats a corpse-now reduced to skin and bones. Twenty-five years ago, someone murdered this unfortunate woman. Now, Detective Inspector Roland Benito and his colleagues must use what scant evidence they have to identify the victim and track down her killer. At the Daily News, reporter Anne Larsen is working feverishly to find information on the body in the bog. Suddenly, the phone rings. The anonymous caller claims to know something important about the matter-and he's sure the killer isn't finished. The only question is when the next victim will fall . . .

What looks like a typical robbery gone wrong leads DI Benito to extremist followers of Viking Age gods in this Danish thriller now available in English. Called to the scene of a murder outside Trige, Roland Benito assumes it's a case of petty criminals who made a gruesome mistake. After all, home robberies have been plaguing all of East Jutland for years. But it soon becomes clear that the men who beat Albert Hovgaard to death inside his country estate were no ordinary thieves. Meanwhile, journalist Anne Larsen has been out of work since the financial crisis shuttered the Daily News. But now an unwelcome visit from the past has her investigating a series of missing homeless people. When the clues lead her to a dangerous group that believes in ancient Norse gods, she fervently wishes she had Benito's help. The third crime thriller in Inger Gammelgaard Madsen's Roland Benito series, A Strange Intrusion is a gritty tale of Viking Age myths and modern-day murder.

Some secrets demand to be heard... When a young man disappears after a night out in Aarhus with his old classmates, Detective Inspector Roland Benito is drawn into the investigation. As DI Benito investigates the situation further, gruesome secrets about the young man's family are revealed. With no other leads to follow, the young man's disappearance seems to be a dead end - until a girl is found dead in a monastery. Meanwhile, Roland's wife is threatened by a client at the social services office - a situation that requires the involvement of journalist Anne Larsen... A gripping Nordic noir, "Seal of Confession" is an independent sequel to the series about Inspector Roland Benito.