num_pages: 368
description: 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 whos 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 novelistand when Julie turns up as a murder victim in the still-unfinished mystery shes writing the link between fiction and real life grows both more urgent and more dangerous. But Esthers role in this twisted scenario is not quite as clear as it first seems. Is she the culpritor just another victim trapped in a twisted game of vengeance? Anette and Jeppe must dig more deeply into the two womens pasts to discover the identity of the brutal puppet-master pulling the strings in this electrifying literary thriller.
language: English
title: The Tenant
publisher: Scout Press