The Chestnut Man
“This might just be the thriller of the year. The Chestnut Man grips you from the opening page and never lets go.”
Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
One of the BBC’s Best Books of the Year in Fiction
The 2020 Audie Award Winner for Best Narration in Mysteries
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Library Journal Best Book of 2019
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of the Year
A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection
International Bestseller • A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year • Winner of the Barry Award for Best First Mystery/Crime Novel • Audie Awards® Winner
“A full-throttle thriller in the tradition of classic Stieg Larsson” —A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window
From Søren Sveistrup, creator of the hit television show, The Killing—a stylish and atmospheric thriller that follows the race to find a serial killer terrorizing Copenhagen.
A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen.
His calling card is a “chestnut man”—a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts—which he leaves at each bloody crime scene.
Examining the dolls, forensics makes a shocking discovery—a fingerprint belonging to a young girl, a government minister’s daughter who had been kidnapped and murdered a year ago.
A tragic coincidence—or something more twisted?
To save innocent lives, a pair of detectives must put aside their differences to piece together the Chestnut Man’s gruesome clues.
Because it’s clear that the madman is on a mission that is far from over.
And no one is safe.
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