The tenant
(2020)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/ENGBERG,K

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Locations Call Number Status
Fiction FICTION/ENGBERG,K Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Scout Press, 2020
EDITION
First Scout Press hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION

356 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781982127572, 1982127570, 9781982127589, 1982127589
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Originally published in 2016 in Denmark by Lindhardt og Ringhof Forlag as Krokodillevogteren

"When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who's a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a budding novelist-and when Julie turns up as a murder victim in the still-unfinished mystery she's writing, the link between fiction and real life grows both more urgent and more dangerous. But Esther's role in this twisted scenario is not quite as clear as it first seems. Is she the culprit-or just another victim, trapped in a twisted game of vengeance? Anette and Jeppe must dig more deeply into the two women's pasts to discover the identity of the brutal puppet-master pulling the strings in this electrifying literary thriller. Hailed as "inconceivably thrilling" (Fyens Stiftstidende, Denmark), The Tenant is a work of stunning originality that will keep readers on the edge of their seats"--

Translated from the Danish

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