Invisible Murder is the second "Nina Borg" novel, about a Danish nurse who endangers her entire family by getting involved in international intrigue. In this novel, she is busy helping out Hungarian Roma refugees when she notices that a lot of them are mysteriously ill due to radioactive cesium poisoning. Who is after the cesium and what they intend to use it for isn't clear until the final pages, but it is hinted that the mysterious antagonist is interested at using the cesium to make a dirty bomb. A dirty bomb is a powerful explosive made even more dangerous by affixing a powerful isotope to the explosives.
I definitely didn't like Invisible Murder as much as I did the first book in the series, The Boy in the Suitcase, but I do think that it's an important novel in the development of the Nina Borg character. Plus, it's a little different from the typical Nordic noir novel, which usually centers around a haggard detective and a brutal series of crimes in a small town near the Arctic Circle. The Nina Borg series is much more urban, much more international. The reason why I'll probably continue reading "Nina Borg" once a year is twofold; I like the genre, and I like the main character.
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