Jenny Kaliban née Dreyer was born in Frederiksværk, about an hour north of Copenhagen, on November 6, 1968. Her parents were both gallery owners and art teachers. Jenny was named after the Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind. From an early age she was active in the local art society, which met in a gallery owned by the Dreyer family.

In 1990, she and her sister founded the artists’ commune Kaliban and organized exhibits and events in the local area. A link to the local paper in Halsnæs led Esther to the revelation of a joint work in the library. The photo showed Jenny at an easel in front of a white-painted brick wall. She looked young, in her twenties, and was strikingly pretty in a white suit with her eyes focused confidently on the camera. A smiling young woman stood on the other side of the easel: her sister, in a floral summer dress.

Esther zoomed in on the caption, yanking her chair a bit closer and disturbing Dóxa, who was napping at her feet.

The sister’s name was Malin Dreyer. Wasn’t she the mother of the missing Oscar Dreyer-Hoff?

Esther closed the article and read on about Jenny in random posts. Accepted in 1995 to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Group exhibition at Den Frie in 1999. Interview in the international arts magazine Apollo. Invited to participate in the Venice Biennale in 2005. Cofounder of the Art as Protest movement, which put on an event in front of Christiansborg Palace in 2008. Commissioned to do a piece for the town square in Frederiksværk in 2009. After that the references thinned out a bit.

Esther found a link at the bottom of the page that led to an article from Weekendavisen from not quite three years ago. The title read, “Museum Cancels in the Eleventh Hour,” and the article was about the Arken Museum of Modern Art, which chose to cancel Jenny Kaliban’s solo exhibit with only a couple months’ notice. The museum director refused to comment on the specific case, and Jenny Kaliban was also silent, but the journalist speculated that it might have had something to do with the scandal at the Nordhjem auction house, which was owned by Kaliban’s sister.

So she was Oscar Dreyer-Hoff’s aunt!

Esther continued to browse but didn’t find more of interest about Jenny Kaliban. What she’d discovered, though, suggested an artistic career that had foundered before it ever really took off.

Just like my own, Esther thought, closing the browser with a guilty sigh.

“DO YOU MIND if I just drop you off?” Anette pulled over to the curb in front of the super police HQ and put the car in neutral.

Jeppe looked at his partner in the driver’s seat.

“Where are you going?” he asked, surprised.

“I’m meeting Mads Teigen, the fort caretaker from Trekroner.”

“Again?!”