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Thoughts on The Boy in the Suitcase (audio) by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis Title: The Boy in the Suitcase [Audiobook] [Paperback] Author: Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis Narrator: Katherine Kellgren Genre: Mystery Running Time: 8 hours 41 minutes Date Published: December 13, 2011 Summary: Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is trying to live a quiet life. The last thing her husband wants is for her to go running off on another dangerous mission to help illegal refugees. But when Nina’s estranged friend Karin leaves Nina a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station and begs her to take care of its contents, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous case yet. Because inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive. Nina’s natural instinct is to rescue the boy, but she knows the situation is risky. Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is hunting him down. When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy’s are in jeopardy, too. My thoughts: The Boy in the Suitcase was the first translated book that I listened to on audio, and I was pretty sure that audio is the only way I’ll be reading translated crime fiction in the future. The second translated crime fiction book that I listened to confirmed that. It’s so nice to have names and locations properly pronounced, and I think the proper pronunciation helps me keep track of the characters better. I found The Boy in the Suitcase to be such a refreshing read! I can’t expound too much into why it was a refreshing read, other than to say that I read a fair amount of crime fiction and the reason the boy is kidnapped was quite interesting and had me thinking about right and wrong long after I finished the book. The pacing was excellent and I thought it was gripping from the minute I started the audio. The Boy in the Suitcase had some interesting social commentary about immigrant refugees that is relevant to those of us in the US. I don’t like to be beat over the head with an author’s agenda or personal political or social opinions. Not because I don’t like discussion or debate, but because I’m relatively intelligent and can get more out of one well worded sentence than I will something that belabors a topic. Thankfully, the authors don’t focus too much on the immigrant refugees topic, but they did do a good job of putting it out there for you to ruminate on or dismiss as you see fit. I don’t know if it’s my newness to audiobooks or that the narrator Katherine Kellgren really is as good as I thought she was, but the narrator was fantastic! She had a different voice for everyone and her pronunciation and accents had me repeating words and names exactly as she said them long after I finished the audiobook. I’ve got the second book in the series, Invisible Murder, on my list of books to read, and I’m hopeful that Katherine Kellgren will be the narrator for that one as well! Thanks to Audiogo for giving me this audiobook to review!
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Detalji Nina Borg, medicinska sestra u Crvenom križu, supruga i majka dvoje djece, ne može si pomoći - mora činiti dobra djela i ne može odbiti nikoga tko od nje zatraži pomoć, čak i kad bi joj to bilo pametnije. Kad joj nekadašnja prijateljica Karin ostavi ključ javnog ormarića na željezničkom kolodvoru u Kopenhagenu, Nina se uplete u najveću opasnost svoga života. U ormariću pronađe kofer, a u koferu trogodišnjeg dječaka: golog i drogiranog, ali živog. Je li to dijete žrtva trgovine ljudima? Može li ga predati vlastima, ili će ga one samo vratiti onome tko ga je prodao? Kada sazna da je Karin brutalno ubijena, Nina shvati da opasnost prijeti i njoj i malenom dječaku. Tijekom sve beznadnijeg putovanja kroz Dansku, Nina nastoji otkriti tko je taj dječak, kamo pripada i tko ga točno nastoji uloviti.