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The dinosaur feather / S.J. Gazan ; translated from the Danish by Charlotte Barslund.
Academic advisor Dr. Lars Helland is found dead in his office chair at the University of Copenhagen. In his bloody lap is a copy of one of his postgraduate student's thesis on the saurian origin of birds. The autopsy suggests the professor was killed in a very ingenious way so Police Superintendent Soren Marhauge is brought in to investigate. Everyone is a suspect, and as the investigation progresses, the detective is presented with the greatest professional and personal challenge of his career.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781623650667 (hc.) :
- ISBN: 9781623658588 (pbk.):
- ISBN: 9780857380357 (trade pbk.)
- Physical Description: 431 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Quercus : 2013.
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| Original Version Note: | Translation of: Dinosaurens fjer. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Danish, c2011. |
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| Genre: | Mystery fiction. Academic mystery. Suspense fiction. Noir fiction. Danish fiction > Translations into English. |
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- Baker & Taylor
When a widely disliked professor is found murdered in his office, tormented young police superintendent S²n Marhauge investigates numerous suspects including an embittered PhD hopeful and the victim's pregnant ex-wife. - Baker & Taylor
When a widely disliked professor at the University of Copenhagen is found murdered in his office, tormented young police superintendent Søren Marhauge investigates numerous suspects including an embittered PhD hopeful and the victim's pregnant ex-wife. A first novel. - Grand Central Pub
Selected by NPR's Maureen Corrigan and The Wall Street Journal's Tom Nolan as one of the best mysteries of the year, Gazan's The Dinosaur Feather--which the Financial Times called "outrageously entertaining"--is a classic of modern Scandinavian noir.With keenly observed and deeply flawed characters, this scintillating thriller revolves around the controversial and fascinating connections between dinosaur and avian evolution. Biology postgraduate, PhD hopeful, and single mom Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from defending her thesis on the saurian origin of birds when her academic supervisor, the highly respected yet widely despised Dr. Lars Helland, is found dead in his office chair at the University of Copenhagen. The police discover a copy of Anna's thesis in the dead man's bloody lap.When the autopsy suggests that Helland was murdered in a fiendishly ingenious way, brilliant but tormented young Police Superintendent Soren Marhauge is called to investigate. As he begins the daunting task of unraveling the knotted skeins of interpersonal and intellectual intrigue among the scientists at the university, his own troubled past begins to complicate the case.Everyone involved with the investigation--from Anna Bella Nor to Helland's numerous academic rivals to Marhauge's own ex-wife, who is pregnant with her current husband's child--has something to hide, muddying the investigation and presenting the detective with the greatest professional and personal challenge of his life.
