Selected as a Most Anticipated title by People, Parade, Bustle,
CrimeReads, She Reads, and more!
An electrifying work of literary suspense from internationally
bestselling author Katrine Engberg, The Tenant--heralded as a
"stunning debut" by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy
Reichs--follows two Copenhagen police detectives struggling to solve a
shocking murder and stop a killer hell-bent on revenge.
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.
Evocative and original, The Tenant promises "dark family secrets--and
a smorgasbord of surprises" (People).
