The Rector of Veilbye
The ministry noted that "the style illuminates elegiac pain and discomfort in an eerily intense drama, and the story is difficult to shake off.Sørensen is forced to investigate by Bruus's brother, but he does so reluctantly because he is engaged to marry the rector's daughter, Mette, in three weeks.Twenty years have passed when a beggar visits the rector and reveals that he is Niels Bruus, the alleged murder victim.Bruus has returned to the village only after the death of his brother, who had concocted the cruel hoax as revenge against the minister for rejecting him as a suitor for his daughter.The case revolved around the unexplained disappearance in 1607 of a farm laborer named Jesper Hovgaard who worked at Pastor Quist's rectory.