The Village That Wasn’t There: A Nordic Noir Thriller

A village erased from every record. A detective who fears his own memory. And one woman who asked too many questions.When detective Mikkel Vestergaard uncovers a discrepancy in a routine property audit, he expects a filing error. Instead, he finds Havstrup - a coastal village that appears in old records but has vanished from every database. No postal code. No tax records. No maps. As if it never existed.But Mikkel remembers Havstrup. He remembers the blue houses, the harbour, the church on the rise. He remembers driving through it twelve years ago. The problem is, he cannot trust his own memory.Mikkel has been forgetting things. Street names. Colleagues' faces. The domestic call he took in Havstrup the year before the village disappeared. He writes everything down now, because he is no longer certain his mind will hold onto it.As his investigation deepens, Mikkel uncovers a paper trail that leads to Eigil Sørensen - the respected municipal planning director who signed off on the village's deletion. But why would a civil servant erase an entire community? The answer lies in seven property deeds, a missing set of meeting minutes, and the cold case of a woman who asked questions and then vanished.

Pagina's: 192, Paperback, Independently published