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 Tenantâheralded as a âstunning debutâ by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichsâfollows 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, whoâs 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 novelistâand when Julie turns up as a murder victim in the still-unfinished mystery sheâs writing, the link between fiction and real life grows both more urgent and more dangerous.
But Estherâs 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 womenâs pasts to discover the identity of the brutal puppet-master pulling the strings.
Evocative and original, The Tenant promises âdark family secretsâand a smorgasbord of surprisesâ (People).