Jenny Lund Madsen
Jenny Lund Madsen is one of Denmarkâs most acclaimed script-writers (including the international hits Rita and Follow the Money, and the box-office success The Land of Short Sentences). She made her debut as a playwright with the critically acclaimed Audition (Aarhus Teater), and her debut literary thriller, Thirty Days of Darkness, first in an addictive new series, won the Harald Mogensen Prize for Best Danish Crime Novel of the year and was shortlisted for the coveted Glass Key Award. Thirty Days of Darkness was published in English in 2023 by Orenda Books, and it was an instant success, winning the Crime Fiction Lover Award for Best Crime Book in Translation, longlisting for the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger and shortlisting for the Capital Crime Fingerprint Awards: Best Debut. It was also a book of the year in the Sunday Times and Guardian. Under the Blazing Sun, published in English in 2026, is the second book in the Murder by the Book series. She lives in Denmark with her young family.
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