PAINKILLER
By Lars Kjædegaard
KETTY WINKLER HAS left her husband and bought a house across the street from Judge Søren Madsen and his wife, Anna. Anna strikes up a friendship with her new neighbor. Ketty’s brother Joakim has written the bestseller “It’s Now”, which everyone is talking about. But Ketty doesn’t care for her famous brother. What made the siblings grow that far apart?
ONE MORNING, SØREN and Anna Madsen find Ketty dead, and investigators Agnes Hillstrøm & Thor Belling are put on the case. Several more deaths occur, and Belling must ask himself why Anna Madsen so often appears in connection with serious crimes. The answer is found, but when the case is solved, everything has changed.
PAINKILLER IS THE fourth and final novel in Lars Kjædegaard’s crime series about Hillstrøm & Belling.
“If we shall crown a King of Crime it must be Lars Kjædegaard.”
Politiken
ABOUT THE BOOK
First published by Gyldendal, Denmark 2026
RIGHTS SOLD
Denmark, Gyldendal
REVIEWS
“Kjædegaard weaves his plots like intimate plays where the true motives and relations are hidden beneath the surface. What makes the stories both extraordinarily and elementary thrilling are the characters with their reasons and their well-hidden dreams and nightmares. Kjædegaard is a master of finding intelligence in the mundane, surprises in the obvious and disturbing elements in the predictable.”
Ekstra Bladet
“Kjædegaard is … among the very best in Danish crime fiction.”
Jyllands Posten
“One of the country’s most interesting crime writers.”
Berlingske
“Lars Kjædegaard is a rare talent as a writer and storyteller.”
Fyens Stiftende
“If we shall crown a King of Crime it must be Lars Kjædegaard.”
Politiken
“A delightful language, lots of subtlety, and a warm twinkle in the eye.”
Bogrummet.dk
“Fine observations of the human mind.”
Bogvægten.dk
“Kjædegaard writes in a clear and empathetic style.”
Weekendavisen
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