The Chestnut Man

SOREN SVEISTRUP

Publication: Michael Joseph, 2018, London

First edition. Signed by the author. Limited edition of 700 numbered copies with a bookmark laid-in. Author's first novel. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. One blustery October morning in a quiet suburb of Copenhagen, the police make a terrible discovery. A young woman is found brutally murdered in a playground and one of her hands is missing. Above her hangs a small doll made of chestnuts. Young detective Naia Thulin is assigned the case. Her partner is Mark Hess, a burned-out investigator who's just been kicked out of Europol's headquarters in The Hague. They soon discover a mysterious piece of evidence on the chestnut man - evidence connecting it to a girl who disappeared a year earlier and is presumed dead; the daughter of politician Rosa Hartung. The man who confessed to her murder is behind bars and the case long since closed. Soon afterwards, another woman is found murdered, along with another chestnut man. Thulin and Hess suspect that there's a connection between the Hartung case, the murdered women and a killer who is spreading fear throughout the country. Thulin and Hess are racing against the clock, because it's clear that the murderer is on a mission that is far from over...