The Exception
An internationally bestselling thriller, The Exception dissects the nature of evil and the paranoia that drives ordinary people to commit unthinkable acts.
Four women work together for a small Copenhagen nonprofit that disseminates information on genocide. When two of them receive death threats, they immediately believe they’re being stalked by a Serbian war criminal whom they recently wrote about. Yet as tensions mount among the women, their suspicions turn away from him and toward each other.
The office becomes a battlefield in which each of the women’s moves is suspect. Tracking down the killer escalates into a witch hunt as the women resort to bullying and victimization. The Exception dissects the nature of evil and the paranoia that drives ordinary people to commit unthinkable acts.
The Exception was made into a Danish-language movie starring Sidse Babett Knudsen (Borgen) and Amanda Collin (Raised by Wolves). It was directed by Jesper W. Nielsen and produced by Zentropa.
International film rights are still available.
The book was featured as an editor’s choice by both the New York Times and Amazon.