Agnete Friis

Biography:

Agnete Friis is a Danish writer who is best known for co-authoring Drengen i kufferten or The Boy in the Suitcase. The book was short-listed for the Scandinavian Glass Key Award competing against The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and received the 2008 Harald Mogensen award for best crime novel. It has been translated into ten languages and there are more than two million copies in print. It was translated into English in 2011.