Christian Jungersen

A riveting psychological drama that challenges the way we understand others and our own sense of self Mia is a schoolteacher in Denmark.

A pyschological thriller in which four women are stalked - possibly by a war criminal or someone closer to homeFour women work at the Danish Centre for Genocide Studies. When two of them start receiving death threats, they suspect they are being stalked by Mirko Zigic, a Bosnian torturer and war criminal. But perhaps he is not the person behind the threats - it could be someone in their very midst. Much of the drama created revolves not only around the scary sense of a killer prowling in the shadows but also around the manipulative games being played between the women in the office as they come under pressure and turn on each other. The irony is that these betrayals and persecutions are taking place amongst professionals who daily analyse cases of appalling cruelty. Now and again, the narrative is broken with extracts from articles dealing with crimes against humanity and the pyschology of evil. Whilst the women apply this to their work with genocide (and the killer), there are parallels to their own behaviour.

A riveting psychological drama that challenges the way we understand othersand our own sense of selfMia is a schoolteacher in Denmark. Her husband, Frederik, is the charismatic headmaster of a local private school. During a vacation on Majorca, they discover that a brain tumor has started to change Frederiks personality. As it becomes harder and harder for Mia to recognize him, she must protect herself and their teenage son from the strange, blunted being who now inhabits her husbands bodyand with whom she must share her home, her son, and her bed.When millions of crowns go missing at the private school, Frederik is the obvious culprit, and Mias private crisis quickly draws in the entire community. Fredericks new indifference and lack of inhibition rupture long-standing friendships, isolating Mia and making her question who Frederik really is. Was the tumor already affecting him during the years they had been so happy together? And does it excuse Frederik from fraud?Mia enlists the help of a lawyer named Bernhard, whom she meets in a support group for spouses of people with brain injuries. As they prepare Frederiks defense, the two of them wrestle with the latest brain research, the age-old question of free willand their growing attraction to each other.Jungersens lithe prose and unexpected plot twists will keep readers hooked until the very last page.

An internationally bestselling thriller, The Exception dissects the nature of evil and the paranoia that drives ordinary people to commit unthinkable acts. Four women work together for a small nonprofit in Copenhagen that disseminates information on genocide. When two of them receive death threats, they immediately believe that they are being stalked by Mirko Zigic, the Serbian torturer and war criminal they recently profiled in their articles. Yet as tensions mount among the women, their suspicions turn away from Zigic and toward each other. The threats increase, and soon the office becomes a battlefield in which each of the womens move is suspect.

Mia, institutrice danoise, épouse Frederik, jeune directeur d’une prestigieuse école privée. Ils ont un fils, Niklas. Très pris par son travail, Frederik délaisse sa famille. Il est loin d’être l’épo

Nadie es lo que parece en este inteligente thriller sobre los variados rostros del amor y la maldad. Cuatro mujeres trabajan en el Centro Danés de Información sobre el Genocidio en Copenhague. Cuando dos de ellas empiezan a recibir e-mails anonimos en los que se les amenaza de muerte, sus sospechas se dirigen hacia los acusados de crimenes contra la humanidad que aparecen en las listas de la web del centro. Sin embargo, a medida que la tension crece, las miradas acusadoras de todas se vuelven hacia sus propias compañeras para descubrir que en realidad nadie es exactamente la persona que parece ser. La oficina se convierte asi en un campo de batalla claustrofobico en el que cada movimiento es sometido al analisis y la sospecha. Con estos ingredientes, Christian Jungersen construye un trepidante juego de espejos en el que reflexiona sobre la psicologia del mal y el origen de la crueldad. Cada una de las protagonistas tendra que descubrir si ella es capaz de hacer el mal o si, por el contrario, es la excepcion.Reseña:La excepcion es un extraordinario thriller psicologico que se merece todos los premios que ha ganado, ¡y muchos mas!Kontexte