This one was not nearly as good as the first two books in this series, for three reasons. First, while the story is part of the Nina Borg series, and she's a character in this book, she really had no part of the plot. She's in many scenes, but surprisingly, Nina Borg really did nothing to move the story along. This book could have been written without her and it still would have worked as well as it did. Second, the Nina Borg character didn't seem like herself, she was "out of character" with se...

It helped that I read the first book in the series, The Boy in the Suitcase which I bought on my own. However, I did not read the second book in the series. I thought the first book on the whole was better than the third book.While I am not that fond in general of the technique the authors used of having multiple story lines merge finally merging into one story line. In the third book this technique is even more confusing because the stories are set in different time periods. I liked the story a...

This series just keeps getting better...I love Nina Borg! I love how beautifully flawed she is. Her OCD is charming. I admire her dedication to the refugees at the Coal House camp and feel sad with her when it creates a heartbreaking rift in her family. In this book, she is still struggling to find an appropriate work/life balance...and while most of us don't work in a refugee camp, it's easy to relate to that constant tug of needing to be two places at once. Adding to the chaos, is the fact tha...

Grab a cup of hot tea and settle on in for a Nordic winter’s tale. You’ll want that hot beverage as you read the vivid descriptions of the driving snow and bone-chilling cold. This mystery is woven between scenes from the Ukraine in 1934 and present day Denmark. It all comes together by the end of the book. While an enjoyable read, I do think the novel would have been better served if I had read the previous two books in the series featuring Nina Borg before tackling this one. As it was, there w...

Not as good as the first two books. The parts that were set in 1930's Ukraine overwhelmed the story a bit. I figured they had something to do with the main storyline, but because I am not familiar enough with that particular country's struggles during that particular time, it was a bit confusing. I dreaded the chapter every time I saw it was a Ukraine chapter just because it was hard for me to orient myself "there" and also put the Ukraine stuff into the future and why it was important. I never

Death Of A NightingalebyLene Kaaberbol & Agnette FriisMy "in a nutshell" summary...Natasha Doroshenko has been arrested for murdering her fiancé. On her way to her interrogation she escapes. Nina Borg...a nurse...tries to help Natasha and her daughter but much is unknown about this woman and her past.My thoughts after reading this book... This book captured my attention in the opening pages. Natasha is being held by the police while her daughter is being cared for at a Red Cross facility under t...

In this third book in the 'Nina Borg' series, Nurse Borg is harboring a girl whose mother is in prison. The book can be read as a standalone.*****Natasha - a Ukrainian woman living is Denmark - is in prison for attempted murder. She escapes police custody and is desperate to reunite with her eight-year-old daughter Katerina. The girl has been living in a refuge, cared for by nurse Nina Borg. Meanwhile, there are a lot of complex things going on and other people want to get their hands on little

Death of a Nightengale is bleak followed by more bleak followed by horrific. How could it be anything else when, at its core it combines the starvation and slaughter of Stalin's Ukraine of 1935 and the coldest and darkest of Scandinavian mystery plots? So much death, hunger and betrayal. Children watching their parents do the best they can in brutal circumstances, only to fail or give up. Inhumanity does not produce empathetic, kind offspring. The writing is spare. This is another book split bet...

Because books that are translations depend so much on the translator, I usually stay away from them. Besides, there seems to be a craze lately for any mystery/thriller written by a Nordic author. So DEATH OF A NIGHTINGALE had two points against it right off the bat.Surprise: DEATH OF A NIGHTINGALE is very good as long as it doesn't bother you that you can't pronounce most characters' names. It also has a slower beginning than lovers of thrillers expect. But it doesn't take long for some mysterie...

Couldnt get into the story. Danish cop. Ukranian girls. Russian police.

I really should have learnt my lesson about this series. Thought the 1st book was an excellent Scandinavian style mystery and it was a nice easy read with a good storyline. The 2nd book was a quick turn off and I didn't get more than 50 pages in. So I thought hey why not give the third one a go. Well this time, I made it over 200 pages in and then I realized I just had nothing invested in the book or the characters. The main protagonist Nina Borg is merely there just so they can say its part of

The ending for this book was so confusing and mixed that it sort of ruined the entire story for me looking back. Too many unanswered questions left me frustrated.

Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis return with their third book - Death of a Nightingale - featuring protagonist Nina Borg. Nina is a Red Cross nurse working in a Danish refugee camp. She's passionate about her work and the people she looks after - to the detriment of her own life. Her marriage has broken down and she's lost custody of her children. Death of a Nightingale continues the story of two of the residents of Coal House Camp - Ukrainian national Natasha and her daughter Katerina. Natasha h...

A bleak read. The book swings between Ukraine in 1935 and modern Denmark. In the Ukraine Stalinism is rife. The Kulaks are being sent to Siberia, neighbours are informing on neighbours and hunger is rife. Olga's sister Oxana is a Stalinist darling.In modern day Denmark, Natasha escapes from police custody and is wanted for the murder of two men. She only wants to get her daughter back, who is being sheltered in a refugee centre.While this is a Nina Borg novel she is a background character to thi...

t can be difficult to jump into an ongoing crime/mystery series. The main character in this series, Nina Borg, was introduced in the book "The Boy In The Suitcase," and another book followed. This is the third. The books take place in Denmark which, like many other Western European Countries, has been faced with an influx of Eastern European refugees trying to find a better life. Nina is now divorced, has a mild case of OCD, is not the most personable of people, but she cares desperately. The

Weakest of the three Nina Borg books by the Danish duo of Kaaberbol and Friis. Natasha Doroshenko, a Ukrainian immigrant,convicted of the attempted murder of her Danish fiancé, escapes police custody on her way to police headquarters in Copenhagen. The Ukranian secret police are after her, and Natasha tries to get to her daughter Rina, who is under Nina's care. There is a second plot in the Ukraine during the 1930s, which seems pretty pointless, even when its relevance is finally revealed. Disap...

Nina Borg, now separated from her husband and becoming somewhat estranged from her children, is maybe a bit too emotionally attached to a child, Katarina, in her care at the Red Cross camp. Katarina was placed at the camp when her mother, Natasha, was arrested for the attempted murder of her fiancee, Michael. He'd been abusive to her but she snapped when Natasha caught Michael attempting to sexually assult Katarina. Things escalate when Natasha escapes from the officers taking her in for questio...

Recently, I've really gotten into crime thrillers - and I discovered the Nina Borg series by Kaaberøl and Friis and Death of a Nightingale is the third book in these series. I actually read the past two previously a few months back, but since I was allowed to read this book as an arc, so I feel obliged to review it - not only to show gratitude to the authors for giving these arcs out, but because I truly did enjoy these books.As I said previously, this book is the third book in the Nina Borg ser...

I found this book a little confusing. It jumped between current time in Denmark and 20 years ago or so in Ukrainia. The people talked about in Ukrainia were not identified as any of the current characters until the last chapter in the book. The current story told about a young mother, Natasha, who has been accused in Ukrainia of killing the husband she loved, and in current time killing her Danish fiance who had been abusing her. She is trying to save her daughter, Katerina, who has asthma and i...

Now I have read all of Lene Kaaberbøl's atmospheric mysteries. Sometimes it is hard to believe the Scandinavian countries always poll high in happiness as bleak as their mysteries are.This is my least favorite of the four, not only for the bleakness but also the convolutions of the backstory makes it hard to follow.