Agnete Friis (born 1974) is a Danish writer who is best known for co-authoring ''Drengen i kufferten'', or ''The Boy in the Suitcase'' with

Lene Kaaberbøl Lene Kaaberbøl (born in 1960) is a Danish writer born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her work primarily consists of children's fantasy series and crime fiction for adults. She received the Nordic Children's Book Prize in 2004. In 2009 Kaaberbøl with h ...

. The book was short-listed for the Scandinavian

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, competing against ''

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'' and received the 2008 Harald Mogensen award for best crime novel. It has been translated into ten languages and there are more than two million copies in print. It was translated into English in 2011. The book was reviewed by

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as "among one of the best crime novels of the year". Agnete Friis also works as a

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, and has also published children and adolescent literature.

Published works

The Nina Borg series (written with
Lene Kaaberbøl Lene Kaaberbøl (born in 1960) is a Danish writer born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her work primarily consists of children's fantasy series and crime fiction for adults. She received the Nordic Children's Book Prize in 2004. In 2009 Kaaberbøl with h ...
)

#''Drengen i kufferten'' / ''The Boy in the Suitcase'' (2008) #''Et stille umærkeligt drab'' / ''Invisible Murder'' (2010) #''Nattergalens død'' / ''Death of a Nightingale'' (2011) #''Den betænksomme morder'' / ''The Considerate Killer'' (2013)

Standalone novels

*''Blitz'' / ''What My Body Remembers'' (2017) *''Summer of Ellen'' *Justas' Børn (2025),

References

1974 births Living people Danish women writers Danish crime fiction writers {{Denmark-writer-stub