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A NAIL-BITINGLY THRILLING CRIME NOVEL FROM THE SCRIPT WRITER BEHIND THE KILLING Rosa Hartung is returning to her job as Minister for Social Affairs, a year since the disappearance of her twelve year-old daughter. Linus Berger, a mentally ill young man, confessed to her killing, but can't remember where he buried her dismembered corpse. That day a young single mother is found murdered at her home in the suburbs of Copenhagen - she's been tortured, and one hand has been cut off. Thulin and Hess, sent to investigate the crime, arrive to find a chestnut figure hanging from a playhouse nearby. When yet another woman is murdered, and another chestnut figure is found, Thulin and Hess begin to suspect that there's a connection between the Hartung case and the murdered women. Thulin and Hess are drawn into a race against time, as the murderer is on a mission that is far from over ..
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The Chestnut Man, Søren Sveistrup
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- Released
- 2019
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- Title
- The Chestnut Man
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Søren Sveistrup
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN10
- 0241372100
- ISBN13
- 9780241372104
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Thriller, Suspense, Horror, Murders, Detective Fiction, Gifts for men, Psychological Thrillers, Criminal thrillers, Nordic Noir, Serial killers, Denmark, Adapted into Series, Child Abductions, Danish Literature, Copenhagen, Danish Detective Novels
- First published
- 2018
- Original title
- Kastanjemanden
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- A NAIL-BITINGLY THRILLING CRIME NOVEL FROM THE SCRIPT WRITER BEHIND THE KILLING Rosa Hartung is returning to her job as Minister for Social Affairs, a year since the disappearance of her twelve year-old daughter. Linus Berger, a mentally ill young man, confessed to her killing, but can't remember where he buried her dismembered corpse. That day a young single mother is found murdered at her home in the suburbs of Copenhagen - she's been tortured, and one hand has been cut off. Thulin and Hess, sent to investigate the crime, arrive to find a chestnut figure hanging from a playhouse nearby. When yet another woman is murdered, and another chestnut figure is found, Thulin and Hess begin to suspect that there's a connection between the Hartung case and the murdered women. Thulin and Hess are drawn into a race against time, as the murderer is on a mission that is far from over ..