How could one man inspire such hatred Professor Lars Helland is found at his desk with his tongue lying in his lap A violent fit has caused him to bite through it in his death throes A sad but simple end Until the autopsy results come through The true cause of his death the slow, systematic and terrible destruction of a man leaves the police at a loss And when a sHow could one man inspire such hatred Professor Lars Helland is found at his desk with his tongue lying in his lap A violent fit has caused him to bite through it in his death throes A sad but simple end Until the autopsy results come through The true cause of his death the slow, systematic and terrible destruction of a man leaves the police at a loss And when a second member of Helland s department disappears, their attention turns to a postgraduate student named Anna She s a single mother, angry with the world, desperate to finish her degree Would she really jeopardise everything by killing her supervisor As the police investigate the most brutal and calculated case they ve ever known, Anna must fight her own demons, prove her innocence and avoid becoming the killer s next victim The Dinosaur Feather is the most fascinating, complex and unusual Scandinavian crime novel since Miss Smilla s Feeling for Snow.