The Tenant
by Katrine Engberg
narrated by Graeme Malcolm
Published: 2020
Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press
Hardback: 368
Rating: 4
Mystery, Thriller, Denmark | Goodreads
Travel destination: Denmark
Kørner/Werner series:
The Tenant
The Butterfly - release date: January 2021
First sentence(s):
The morning light swirled up dust from the heavy drapes.
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.
My two-bits:
The theme of parallels pasts that intertwine struck me with this mystery.
* Listened to audiobook version.
* part of Scandinavian Reading Challenge 2020 (here)
* part of Armchair Autumn Travel (here)
