Peter Hoeg

• Sep-1993
• / Suspense

A Time Best Book of the Year · An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year · A People Best Book of the Year · Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award · A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Mystery NovelFirst published in 1992, Peter Høeg's Sm...

• Nov-1994
• / Suspense

"Gripping and disturbing . . . Høeg's evocation of the way a child perceives the world is alarmingly vivid."-USA TodayStrange things are happening at Biehl's Academy when this elite school opens its doors to a group of orphans and reform-school reje...

• Oct-1996
• / General Fiction

Through a series of vividly imaginative and wildly colorful characters, Hoeg gives us a very different account of the twentieth century, which in Denmark encompasses the transition from a medieval society to a modern welfare state with its accompanyi...

• Nov-1996
• / General Fiction

The Woman and the Ape is the story of a unique and unforgettable couple -- Madelene and Erasmus. Madelene -- a sleeping beauty drowsing gently in an alcoholic stupor -- is the beautiful and disillusioned wife of Adam Burden, a distinguished behavior ...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction

These eight stories are linked by a date and a motif. All of them have to do with love. Love and its conditions on the night of March 19, 1929. In his second book and his only collection of stories, Peter Høeg proves himself to be a true storyte...

• Nov-2007
• / General Fiction

Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johan Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradi...

• Oct-2012
• / Literary

“A delightful novel” and international bestseller from the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow (Guardian) Danish siblings search for their missing parents -- eccentric ‘miracle-makers’ -- in this whimsical tale about faith and the magic of ever...

• Aug-2017
• / Thriller

Susan Svendsen has an unusual talent. She is an expert in finding out secrets. People feel compelled to confide in her and unwittingly confess their innermost thoughts. Her whole life, she has exploited this talent, but now her family is in jeopardy ...

• / General Fiction

The original Scandinavian thriller One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop.The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, an expert in the ways of snow and ice, suspects murder....