The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis 313 pages

Winner of Denmark"s Best Thriller Award and probably the first Danish thriller I have read and the first to feature child trafficking. A woman gets an urgent request to go to a locker at a Copenhagen train station and remove a suitcase. The suitcase is very heavy and awkward. She opens it to find a drugged three year old boy. How and why he was put in the suitcase is a cleverly constructed puzzle. The woman, a Red Cross nurse has to figure out where to take this child who speaks a different language. She doubts that taking him to the authorities would really help. She knows that her estranged husband would be upset with her and she can't get in touch with the former friend who called her and thrust this responsibility on her.A murderer starts a trail of blood.This is one of those books in which one several seemingly unconnected strands of characters and actions are woven together to create a strong story. Very satisfying.