Bestselling Danish novelist Martin Jensen was born in 1946 and worked as a teacher and a headmaster in Sweden and Denmark before becoming a full-time writer in 1996. The author of twenty-one novels, he has been honored by the Danish Crime Academy twice and was awarded the Royal Library s Prize for his medieval novel Soldiers Whore. He and his wife are botany enthusiasts who also enjoy bird-watching and gathering mushrooms.
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The first in the bestselling Danish series of historical mysteries. The newly crowned King Cnut of Denmark has conquered England and rules his new empire from Oxford. The year is 1018 and the war is finally over, but the unified kingdom is far from pea... SEE MORE