num_pages: 352
description: For fans of Katrine Engberg and Lars Kepler the second chilling novel in Anne Mette Hancocks #1 bestselling Danish crime series is a psychological whirlwind that explores the nature of truth and what it means when we can no longer trust what we know to be real.When 10-year-old Lukas disappears from his Copenhagen school police investigators discover that the boy had a peculiar obsession with pareidoliaa phenomenon that makes him see faces in random things. A photo on his phone posted just hours before his disappearance shows an old barn door that resembles a face. Journalist Heloise Kaldan thinks she recognizes the barnbut from where? When Lukes blood-flecked jacket is found in the moat at Copenhagens Citadel DNA evidence points to Thomas Strand an ex-soldier suffering from severe PTSD. But then Strand turns up dead in his apartment shot in the head execution style. What did the last person to see Lukas really witness that morning in the school yard? Was it really Lukas or an optical illusion? Can you ever truly trust your eyes?
language: English
title: The Collector
publisher: Crooked Lane Books