Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen

Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen

Date

May 30, 2026 (Sat)

Time

3:00pm

About this event

the date has been changed to be the weekend following memorial day.

From Goodreads: A Danish literary author is challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days, travelling to a small village in Iceland for inspiration, and then a body appears ... an atmospheric, darkly funny, twisty debut thriller, first in an addictive new series.

Copenhagen author Hannah is the darling of the literary community and her novels have achieved massive critical acclaim. But nobody actually reads them, and frustrated by writer' s block, Hannah has the feeling that she' s doing something wrong.

When she expresses her contempt for genre fiction, Hanna is publicly challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days. Scared that she will lose face, she accepts, and her editor sends her to Hú safjö ð ur – a quiet, tight-knit village in Iceland, filled with colorful local characters – for inspiration.

But two days after her arrival, the body of a fisherman' s young son is pulled from the water ... and what begins as a search for plot material quickly turns into a messy and dangerous investigation that threatens to uncover secrets that put everything at risk ... including Hannah.

Event Location

Lakewood Social, 1920 Chapel Hill Road,, Durham, NC

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