The Literate Kitty

A single mom gets a call early in the morning, necessitating the unceremonious hustling of her so- not -a-boyfriend out of the apartment, followed by making a slapdash school lunch for her little girl, so that she can drop off said small human at said school, then rush off to work to put out whatever fire apparently needs her urgent attention. In this case, though, it isn’t an unhappy client or an impending deadline (or any of the other “normal” work crises most people have to deal with); Naia Thulin is a Copenhagen police detective (although she really, really wants to transfer to IT, so she can actually spend some time with her child), and her boss (who clearly has no plans whatsoever to let her go) wants her at the scene of a newly-discovered murder, now.  In addition, he’s saddling her with a temporary placement, one Mark Hess—someone who normally travels internationally working on high-profile cases, but who’s been ordered home for a spell (after royally pissing someone off,