The Moorland Murders (Detective Nelly Birkebæk Book 1)

Police detective Nelly Birkebæk and her teenage son, Matthias, relocate from Aarhus to the provincial town of Hedeborg in central Jutland, hoping for a quieter life. Nelly has purchased a run-down house in one of the town's better neighborhoods. Her neighbor, Ejnar Skjold, quickly takes an interest in her. A missing teenage boy is found dead in a creek in a wooded area outside town. The investigation reveals that the person who reported the discovery was not the first to find the body. Hedeborg contains multiple layers: the local eccentric Randi Bruun reports a drone circling her house, the powerful Eskelund family exerts considerable influence, and a group known as those from the Village exists on society's margins. Nelly and her colleagues at the Hedeborg Police Department investigate across quiet residential neighborhoods, the town's fringes, influential families, and the abandoned brown coal fields. The town itself appears built on lies.