A gruesome discovery in a Copenhagen apartment. A desperate author’s dark secret. A stalker who will stop at nothing, to destroy everything…Jensen returns in her most sinister case yet.
When human remains turn up behind an apartment wall DI Henrik Jungersen finds himself on the trail of a killer who has been hiding in plain sight.
Meanwhile, Jensen should be enjoying maternity leave but life has other plans. Legendary author, Valde Brix, is claiming to be her father. But Brix has an ulterior motive.
Then a woman connected to Brix turns up brutally murdered, and Jensen and her teenage apprentice Gustav become embroiled in Henrik’s investigation.
It soon becomes chillingly clear that the stalker will stop at nothing. And as the danger closes in Jensen realises the threat isn’t just to Brix – her own family is in mortal danger.
Heidi Amsinck a writer and journalist born in Copenhagen has lived in London for many years. A graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, she was previously shortlisted for the VS Pritchett Memorial Prize. She has written many stories for BBC Radio 4 including The Bellevue Poltergeist series which features Jensen. She is the author of four previous books in the Jensen series: My Name is Jensen, The Girl in the Photo, Back from the Dead and Out of the Dark, as well a book of short stories, Last Train to Helsingor.
My thoughts: This was really good, a twisted, clever case that throws up lots of avenues for the detectives to go down, links between old cases and the new one, new cases coming along while they’re working that might be connected.
When the remains of a young woman are found bricked up in a Copenhagen flat, the police are shocked to discover that she was pregnant when she died. The flat’s owner insists he knows nothing, and suspicion falls on author Valde Brix, who once stayed there.
Brix has contacted Jensen, who’s on maternity leave, he drops a bombshell, he thinks he’s her father. He was in a relationship with her mother at around the right time, but Jensen’s mother is adamant he isn’t. He also asks Jensen to help him investigate a stalker who has been sending anonymous threats.
This brings Jensen back into Henrik’s life, while he’s already having problems at home, can they work together or is it just too complicated?
I really enjoy complex crime books like this, where the characters are as messy as real life and the cases cause them personal chaos. The case does get solved, but there are repercussions that might come up in future books.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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