The Boy in the Suitcase

How's this for a chilling premise: A nurse who agrees to pick up a package at a train station locker for an estranged pal finds that the "package" is a suitcase containing a drugged, but alive, 3-year-old boy. But who is he? When the estranged friend turns up murdered, the nurse knows she and the boy are also in danger, but who's after them, and why? Stieg Larsson fans won't want to miss this award-winning Danish crime novel.

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