Money To Burn is the first novel in a series of seven volumes currently in progress, all revolving around the murder case on the ship Scandinavian Star in 1990, which cost the lives of 159 people.
On a bus ride across the island of Funen in the south of Denmark, the narrator – identifiable as the author herself – has a vision. In the short opening chapter, she tells us of how this story came to her, how it haunted her to be told, and we are plunged into it as the narrator blends her reality into building blocks for the fictional story. Sitting on a bus one day, the narrator sees an old man’s face through the window, and that vision sets off a series of thoughts and images that bring her back to Funen. And to a farm where she imagines the lives of a man and a woman: Kurt and Maggie, the primary characters.
A little outside of Nyborg, Kurt and Maggie live on a farm in the 1980s. Their young daughter Sofie has moved out. Kurt has a bus company with a couple of employees, and Maggie has a longing she doesn’t quite seem to understand. Initially, those are their two most distinctive characteristics. From the beginning it is clear they are distant to each other, and only as the story progresses, we find out why: broken dreams, lack of understanding, distrust, and unfortunate circumstances simultaneously pull them together and apart.
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