Katrine Engberg

Katrine Engberg is a Danish crime fiction author and former choreographer, dancer, stage director and actor.

Her debut novel was the novel “Crocodile Guardian” otherwise known as “The Tenant” that she first published in 2016 to widespread popularity. The book became a massive hit among reviewers and readers and got several nominations for a range of prestigious awards. She followed it up with “Blood Moon” an excellent crime novel that the Copenhagen newspaper wrote that crime queens should be shaking in their boots at the upstart soon taking their place. The novel would earn her an author of the year nomination. She would then write her third novel in the series titled “Glasvinge,” which was also a huge success just like her previous two works. The third novel got a MARTHA award nomination in 2018 and 2019.

Katrine Engberg was brought up in Østerbro and still lives in the town with her husband and their child.

Books in order of publication (In English and Danish):

The Tenant (Kørner and Werner # 1) – 2016

Blodmåne (Kørner and Werner # 2) – 2017

The Butterfly House (Kørner and Werner # 3) – 2018

The Harbor (Kørner and Werner # 4) – 2019

The Sanctuary (Kørner and Werner # 5) – 2020


Det brændende blad – (Liv Jensen # 1) – 2022

De hvide nætter (Liv Jensen # 2) – 2023