THE RED ROOSTER

DEN RØDE HANE – THE RED ROOSTER

By Ingrid Nymo

NOMINATED FOR THE DR PRIZE 2025 FOR BEST NOVEL.

ROBERTA IS A home care worker and has a broken heart. She desperately wants a child to dispel her loneliness. Her childhood friend and ex-boyfriend, Silas, still haunts her. At the same time, an arsonist is on the loose in the area, spreading fear and suspicion among the elderly people on her route.

THE RED ROOSTER is a dark welfare thriller set on remote farms, in detached houses, warm living rooms and fragrant kitchens, at a harmonica museum and on the country roads of wind-swept Thy. It is a story about difficult families and their secrets, about betrayal, art, desire, and the dream of ultimate connectedness.