An Evening with Michael Katz Krefeld and Benjamin Koppel

Michael Katz Krefeld and Benjamin Koppel in conversation: Monday 9 November 2026, 19:00–20:30, Hovedbiblioteket i Aalborg, Aalborg. Admission is free.

Hovedbiblioteket i Aalborg invites you to an evening with authors Michael Katz Krefeld and Benjamin Koppel. The conversations are moderated by Karina Kirsten Øgendahl and take place in Glashjørnet.

The programme runs as follows: 19:00-19:20 conversation with Michael Katz Krefeld, 19:20-19:40 conversation with Benjamin Koppel, and 19:40-20:00 a joint discussion about when crime fiction meets the family saga. The evening concludes with book sales and signing with both authors from 20:00-20:30.

Michael Katz Krefeld is one of Denmark's most award-winning crime writers and the only author to have won the Crime Fair's Audience Prize three times. He has written scripts for TV series including Nikolaj & Julie, Hotellet, and Nynne, and since 2013 has been behind the bestselling series about private detective Ravn, which has been sold for publication in 20 countries. In his new crime novel The Mummy, the 11th book in the series, a failed nerve gas attack in the Stockholm metro leaves six dead perpetrators. Ravn and his team follow the trail to the doomsday cult The Divine Dawn Order, and the investigation takes a dangerous turn when a break-in at a Danish pharmaceutical company leads to the theft of the extremely deadly Marburg virus.

Benjamin Koppel is an award-winning jazz musician with numerous recordings to his name. He made his debut as a novelist in 2022 with the bestseller Anna's Song, which won several prizes, and followed up in 2024 with The Butterfly's Voice, which won the Golden Laurels. The Sound of Hope is the third book in the Koppelman family series. Here we meet Bruche, who grows up in a small Jewish shtetl in Poland at the end of the 19th century and, due to Russian persecution, must flee to Copenhagen. The novel jumps to 1987, when Bruche turns 100 and hopes for - but also dreads - a possible visit from his daughter Hannah, because she once did something unforgivable that may be too late to make right.