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Success of the 2012 Glass Key Award given by the associates of the Offense Writers of Scandinavia All the best homes are by this, or so the matron of Kongslund Orphanage says her small charges. But at this particular house by the ocean, not all is as it appears. On September 11, 2001, on a desolate beach on the outskirts of Copenhagen, authorities begin investigating the strange fatality of any unidentified woman. Encircling your body are what seem to be offerings to the deceased: A booklet, a small noose, a inactive gold canary, a linden tree branch, and a picture of the Kongslund Orphanage. As the authorities puzzle over their bizarre findings, the Twin Towers land in wall space of flame and the truth is quickly overshadowed by the terror half of a world away. Years later, as the 60th anniversary of the matron's reign at Kongslund approaches, identical anonymous letters are delivered to six of the home's past residents, hinting at a cover-up that has allowed Denmark's most important to cover away their grubby secrets and keep their grasp on power. As one tenacious reporter hunts for signs, he begins to unravel the real parentage of some of Kongslund's "orphans". Can he work out who is sending the mysterious letters and who murdered the girl on the beach years before before it is too overdue?