I received an ARC of The Tenant by Katrine Engberg from Simon and Schuster in exchange for my honest review. This is book 1 in the Korner and Werner series. Book 2, The Butterfly House is available now as well.
Book Synopsis
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 Review
This is the first mystery/thriller I have read of the Nordic Noir genre. I liked the addition of the entries that read like they were from a mysterious narrator we had yet to meet in the story.
I found the beginning to start off at a slow pace, but things started to get more interesting the further I got into the novel.
I really liked the two detective characters, Jeppe and Anette. They seemed to work well together and the author gave them flaws which I feel made them more real. They were complex characters.
This is definitely a twisty, mysterious read. I look forward to reading The Butterfly House and to more of Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner as they solve more crimes together.
My Rating: 4/5
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Book Details
Author: Katrine Engberg.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster.
Publication Date: January 14, 2020.
Genre: Nordic Noir. Suspense. Thriller. Mystery. Crime.
Edition: Hardcover.
Pages: 368.
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