The novel, Den stille pige, is about the 42-year-old world famous circus artiste Kasper Krone, who has a passion for poker and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. His hearing is prodigious, as indeed are his debts to the taxman. While wintering in Glostrup, he finds out that one of his former pupils, KlaraMaria, a 10-year-old girl, has been kidnapped. Rights have been sold to the following countries: England (Harvill Secker), Finland (Tammi), Germany (Carl Hanser Verlag), Greece (Psichogios), Holland (Meulenhoff), Italy (Mondadori), Latvia (Atena), Norway (Aschehoug), Russia (Symposium), Sweden (Norstedts), USA (Farrar Straus & Giroux). Peter Høeghs last book Kvinden og Aben [The Woman and the Ape] was published ten years ago. He has also written De måske egnede (Borderlines) (1993) and Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne (Miss Smillas Sense of Snow) (1992). Peter Høeghs books have appeared in 33 countries and Frøken Smilas fornemmelse for sne was filmed by the Danish film director Bille August in 1997.
