Baby X
The Eurovision-fever has swept in over Malmö. Thousands of schlager fans are cooling off with beer and going for swims, when suddenly a body floats up in the canal. It turns out to be the notorious gossip journalist Danne Bersén.
Journalists Anne and Sven receives a tip that he had been blackmailing celebrities with threats to expose their darkest secrets. But nothing is as it first appears. Was Danne silenced because he was onto something big?
In a small seaside village in Skåne, a single father lives with his two daughters. On the surface, he seems like the perfect dad. Yet, one of the mothers in the community begins to suspect that something isn’t quite right.
Lena Sundström and Jens Mikkelsen follow up their successful crime debut The Sanctuary with an equally compelling sequel. In a vibrant and diverse Malmö, we follow Anne and Sven as they are drawn deeper into a dark world where everything has a price—even a newborn child.
Baby X is a gripping thriller with a fast pace, pressing social issues and breathtaking twists.
Jens Mikkelsen lives in Malmö and has worked as an award-winning investigative journalist at the newspaper Sydsvenskan since 2005. He has written a book about missing undocumented children and has reported several times on the black market in Malmö’s underworld.
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Lena Sundström is an award-winning investigative journalist. She lives in Stockholm and has been named an honorary Doctor of Laws by Stockholm University. In 2009 and 2013, she was nominated for the August Prize. Since 2015, she has worked for the Swedish public broadcaster SVT and has previously collaborated with Dagens Nyheter, TV4, and Aftonbladet.
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Denmark: Modtryk, Norway: Aschehoug, Finland: Gummerus, Netherlands: A.W. Bruna, Germany: S. FischerThe Eurovision-fever has swept in over Malmö. Thousands of schlager fans are cooling off with beer and going for swims, when suddenly a body floats up in the canal. It turns out to be the notorious gossip journalist Danne Bersén.
Journalists Anne and Sven receives a tip that he had been blackmailing celebrities with threats to expose their darkest secrets. But nothing is as it first appears. Was Danne silenced because he was onto something big?
In a small seaside village in Skåne, a single father lives with his two daughters. On the surface, he seems like the perfect dad. Yet, one of the mothers in the community begins to suspect that something isn’t quite right.
Lena Sundström and Jens Mikkelsen follow up their successful crime debut The Sanctuary with an equally compelling sequel. In a vibrant and diverse Malmö, we follow Anne and Sven as they are drawn deeper into a dark world where everything has a price—even a newborn child.
Baby X is a gripping thriller with a fast pace, pressing social issues and breathtaking twists.
