Jen Alexander is a former primary school teacher and current translator and interpreter from Scotland. She studied Scandinavian languages at the University of Edinburgh. She works from Portuguese and Danish, and particularly enjoys translating creative and literary texts. She's a Chartered Institute of Linguists-certified translator of Portuguese and Danish into English and a Diploma in Public Service Interpreting-qualified interpreter. Jen has collaborated on English translation and editorial projects for Vernáculo, served as a Portuguese-English interpreter with the Fife Community Interpreting Service, and her literary translations include Caio Fernando Abreu's Garopaba Mon Amour (Manoa Journal, 2018) and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen's "The Silence" (Dedalus, 2018). She lives near Edinburgh with her two children and slightly eccentric dog.

"A worthy ending to a magnificent and dark fantasy crime story about friendship, love and magic."--Emilie "Goodreads"

"Once I sat down with the book and really got started, I really had a hard time putting it down, I just had to know more, and I had to know how it would all end."--Benedict Erikson "The Book Home, benedictesbogblog.blogspot.com"

"For the sake of those who are reading along, I will avoid spoiling anything, but SHUT UP NOW! I AM NOT OKAY! It's fantasy, it's #metoo, and it's absolutely fantastic! Gry Kappel Jensen has outdone herself!"--Emma Thingsted "Goodreads"

"Gry Kappel Jensen narrates with a firm grip of her story lines and a good understanding of the dramatic curve. The many shady deeds are revealed along the way with the help of Norse mythology and the many shade shifts of nature. The final culmination makes the Fall of the Walls of Jericho look like something involving Lego bricks. This is a great saga. A tour de force." --Steffen Larsen "Politiken"

WINNER OF THE BEST DANISH FANTASY NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD

Nightshade is the exciting and dramatic culmination of the Rosenholm fantasy trilogy, a bestselling Danish series full of magic, Nordic mythology, mystery and love, which takes the classic boarding school setting and turns it into its very own.