The Boy in the Suitcase A Nina Borg Mystery (Audible Audio Edition) Lene Kaaberbøl author and translator Agnete Friis Katherine Kellgren Inc Blackstone Audio Books
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Audie Award Nominee, Solo Narration - Female, 2013
Audie Award Nominee, Best Thriller/Suspense Category, 2013
Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is trying to live a quiet life. The last thing her husband wants is for her to go running off on another dangerous mission to help illegal refugees. But when Nina's estranged friend, Karin, leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, and begs her to take care of its contents, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous case yet.
Because inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy naked and drugged, but alive. Nina's natural instinct is to rescue the boy, but she knows the situation is risky. Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is hunting him down. When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy's are in jeopardy, too.
The Boy in the Suitcase A Nina Borg Mystery (Audible Audio Edition) Lene Kaaberbøl author and translator Agnete Friis Katherine Kellgren Inc Blackstone Audio Books
I read this on Kindle, and there were some formatting issues (accented letters not appearing correctly) and choices (the first few words of new sections/chapters were a lighter color than the rest) that were a bit distracting, but I am not considering them in this review. There are also a few odd choices of phrase, which I attribute to this being a translated book (the story takes place primarily in Denmark, where it was originally published).I was a bit lost at the beginning of the book, as it does take a nonlinear approach to storytelling, but quickly fell into the story of a woman, Nina Borg, who agrees to help out a friend with whom she’s sort of fallen out of touch by picking up a suitcase for her from a locker. Nina is shocked when she opens the suitcase and finds a naked toddler inside.
The rest of the book mainly consists of Nina trying to uncover the boy’s identity and how he came to be in the suitcase. I think the less you know about the mystery, the better you will enjoy watching it unfold.
The story hops around to viewpoints of several different characters, but aside from the spotty beginning, it really isn’t hard to differentiate them. The voices are unique, which I appreciated.
The pacing was handled well. This is a very intense read, and the stakes get higher and higher as time goes on. It is a very gripping thriller.
My main complaint with the novel is that several times we are told things about Nina and her past that are never fully explained. I’m not sure if this is something that was lost in translation, or if it is a part of her character that is more fully explored in later books in the series, but it is the reason I can only give this 4 out of 5 stars.
I would recommend to people who enjoy crime thrillers, translated works, and books involving children in peril.
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The Boy in the Suitcase A Nina Borg Mystery (Audible Audio Edition) Lene Kaaberbøl author and translator Agnete Friis Katherine Kellgren Inc Blackstone Audio Books Reviews
This book attacks the parent's worst nightmare - and it does it with no apologies nor any hesitation to entertain the worst possibilities. I was riveted from the first page, with the image of a frail child packed in a suitcase. I am pleased that I followed my instincts and read the book.
This is a book that takes disparate-seeming threads of characters and weaves them into a chilling and rather ingenious story. I enjoy books that keep me guessing and this, for the most part, did. It also provides insight into the cultural differences of various countries and backgrounds , yet concurrently demonstrates the common themes and lines that run across humanity.
The characters are beautifully rendered, in my humble opinion and I was still interested during the few "dry" areas (that end up being crucial, of course). I think that the action was well-thought-out and niether too gory nor unbelievable. There was not a gratuitous piece of violence and there were some very important moral issues brought forth to consider.
I think that the whole story is solid and definitely worth my time. I am not one to go on about specific plot points, as I prefer not to be told too much about a book before I read it. My apologies if you are looking for a blow-by-blow.
I can honestly recommend this book and stand by my high opinion of it. Good reading to all!
Multiple plot scenarios going on. Switches between various scenes left gaps, was confusing and not well done. Abrupt ending that did not complete the many character's stories.
Felt like you ran into a brick wall. I almost wondered if my had not download the entire book!!!
The Boy in the Suitcase is a crime mystery set mostly in Denmark. The opening chapter has the heroine of a series of these books go to the train station to retrieve a suitcase for a friend of hers. When she opens the suitcase, she finds a naked, drugged, three year old boy in there. And from there, we are off on an adventure of figuring out who the child is, where he came from, and why was he in the suitcase in the first place. The main background theme of this book, in my opinion, are the relationships of four couples with their desires for children. We read about Nina Borg and her relationships with her two children and husbad; Jan and Anne Marquat and their son; and Janucs and Barbara and their desire for a life for themselves and children; and finally Sigita and Darius and their convoluted relationship.
As the story goes along we read of each of the couples and their desires for children and what it means to them. The books is structure with each short chapter taking a look at one of the couples in either the current time, or in the past, to give the reader some sense of how all these characters happen to come together in this story. This can be somewhat confusing in the beginning of the book as each chapter bounces around to someone else, but eventually the reader gets enough of the back story to start making sense of it all and at that point the chapters focus on the current events - from the viewpoint of each different protagonist. While I, as the reader, formed some opinions about the characters and what they were doing throughout the book, I was taken by surprise by some plot twists that were introduced. Without giving these major plot twists away, there is one in the middle of the book, and another towards the far end which really make the whole story come together in a way that makes sense. By the end of the book, everything comes together in a coherent whole and when things get resolved, they are resolved in a way that makes sense. The bad guy, or guys, get their due, and we find out not only who the boy in the suitcase is, but why he was there. There is a small epilogue in which it is clear that Nina Borg is the hero of a series of stories and sets the stage for other such stories in the future.
I found this book to be an interesting read. It is written by two female writers so perhaps that explains why it appears that most of the story is told from the women's point of view while the males are mere cartoonish characters. Nonetheless, the story holds together and the way the plot evolves and gets resolved makes sense for the most part. The writing is engaging and it's a book that - once you get going in it - you will want to finish just to see how it ends. One of the interesting things for me was that it was set amongst various European countries and cultures from Denmark to Lithuania with a bit of Polish thrown in to boot. While the cultural differences did not come into play, there were some comments about the different lifestyles and how the Westerners and Easterners reacted to it all. This is a good book and deserves a four star rating , which is what I am giving it.
I read this on , and there were some formatting issues (accented letters not appearing correctly) and choices (the first few words of new sections/chapters were a lighter color than the rest) that were a bit distracting, but I am not considering them in this review. There are also a few odd choices of phrase, which I attribute to this being a translated book (the story takes place primarily in Denmark, where it was originally published).
I was a bit lost at the beginning of the book, as it does take a nonlinear approach to storytelling, but quickly fell into the story of a woman, Nina Borg, who agrees to help out a friend with whom she’s sort of fallen out of touch by picking up a suitcase for her from a locker. Nina is shocked when she opens the suitcase and finds a naked toddler inside.
The rest of the book mainly consists of Nina trying to uncover the boy’s identity and how he came to be in the suitcase. I think the less you know about the mystery, the better you will enjoy watching it unfold.
The story hops around to viewpoints of several different characters, but aside from the spotty beginning, it really isn’t hard to differentiate them. The voices are unique, which I appreciated.
The pacing was handled well. This is a very intense read, and the stakes get higher and higher as time goes on. It is a very gripping thriller.
My main complaint with the novel is that several times we are told things about Nina and her past that are never fully explained. I’m not sure if this is something that was lost in translation, or if it is a part of her character that is more fully explored in later books in the series, but it is the reason I can only give this 4 out of 5 stars.
I would recommend to people who enjoy crime thrillers, translated works, and books involving children in peril.
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