Buku lachiwawa la Nordic lili ndi gawo laku Denmark kwambiri Jussi Adler-Olsen mozungulira malo ake apolisi a Q department komanso Soren Sveistrup wolonjeza yemwe wangolowa kumene kumpoto kwenikweni kuchokera pazolemba zamakanema.
Ndipo bukuli lili ndi zolemba zambiri, chiwembu chosangalatsa chomwe sichitha ndipo chikuwoneka kuti chimapanga zochitika zakanema mozungulira wakupha yemwe modus operandi yake ikufuna kuwonetsa macabre kuti awonekere.
Tidapita ku Copenhagen ndikudzilola kutsogozedwa ndi Inspector Naia Thulin komanso a Mark Hess opulupudza, omwe amafuna kuchita zambiri kuposa woyang'anira kumene amabwerera atatha kuwona kukongola kwa ntchito yake mwamphamvu kwambiri .kuyanjana ndi andale osati apolisi.
Monga nthawi zina m'malingaliro amtunduwu, zidziwitso zoyambirira za wakupha mtsikana zikuwoneka ngati zikuyambitsa zolemba zolembedwa ndi malingaliro amdima omwe amatha kupha. Poterepa, chidindo chala chimalumikiza kupha kuja ndi kuzimiririka kwa msungwana wosauka.
Zosatheka ndiye zimayatsa nyali yatsopano. Mtsikana yemwe wasowa ndi kumusiya kukafa sangathe kusiya chizindikiro chake. Amayi a msungwana wamng'ono, wandale wodziwika bwino Rosa Hartung amatenga chiyembekezo chakale.
Ndipo ndipamene chiwembucho chimatenga mbali ziwiri pakati pa sewero ndi zosangalatsa. Nthawi imayambiranso kutaya chiyembekezo kupita ku chiyembekezo chosamveka bwino, ndikumakhala ndi nkhawa kwa maola ochepa ndikulunjika kuzinthu zosamveka bwino ndi maulalo omwe akupezeka pa slate ya ofufuza ngati njira zolakwika zowonera choonadi.
Pakati pa Naia ndi Mark ayesa kukhazikitsa malongosoledwe olondola, ndikupereka kafukufuku yemwe angalepheretse kuwunika kwa zochitika zatsopano. Koma mwina malingaliro awo osanthula sangathe kulingalira za kuthekera kopindika kwambiri, komwe kumatha kupanga chidani pamoto wobwezera wobwezera.
Chitsimikizo chokha chomwe chimatsegukira ofufuza awiriwa, Naia yemwe ndi woyamba kuthana ndi milandu ndi Mark kubwerera pachilichonse, ndikuti zoyipa zitha kupeza zochitika zatsopano kuti zizidziyeseza zokha. Ndipo akamatenga nthawi yayitali kuti aphatikize zonse, wopezedwayo angatenge nawo mbaliyo.
Tsopano mutha kugula buku la The Hartung Affair, wolemba zolemba za Soren Sveistrup, apa: