The Chestnut Man
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3.6 • 14 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup, read by Charlotte Melén.
THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE CREATOR AND WRITER OF THE KILLING
The police make a terrible discovery in a suburb of Copenhagen. A young woman has been killed and dumped at a playground. One of her hands has been cut off, and above her hangs a small doll made of chestnuts.
Young detective Naia Thulin is assigned the case. Her partner is Mark Hess, a burned-out investigator who's just been kicked out of Europol's headquarters in The Hague. They soon discover a mysterious piece of evidence on the chestnut man - evidence connecting it to a girl who went missing a year earlier and is presumed dead, the daughter of politician Rosa Hartung. A man confessed to her murder, and the case is long since solved.
Soon afterwards, another woman is found murdered, along with another chestnut man. Thulin and Hess suspect that there's a connection between the Hartung case, the murdered women and a killer who is spreading fear throughout the country. But what is it?
Thulin and Hess are racing against the clock, because it's clear that the murderer is on a mission that is far from over . . .
Customer Reviews
Fantastic Book, poor delivery
Thought the book was totally amazing, would recommend to everyone over 18! Massive Borgen/The Killing/The Bridge fan and this equals, if not surpasses them all.
Narrator Charlotte Melén is poor however, too slow, no emotion in her voice.
Listening to her read regular text was okay, but listening to her read conversations were painful.
The Chestnut Man
If you enjoy macabre murder recounted in brutal detail, you might enjoy this ‘thriller’. If you also take pleasure in cold hard ambitious detectives with scarcely an ounce of humanity or compassion, this is another reason you might read or listen to this novel. If you watched and enjoyed The Killing, remember that it was a film, so the characters were not robotic but expressive of warmth, sorrow, kindness and their opposites. Soren Sveistrup is a script writer not a novelist. His trade is action. His characters without the living presence of actors are as flat as they are unpleasant. There is nothing to enjoy in this novel except grim nastiness.
Book good, narrator poor
The robotic tone of the narrator is awful, the book is actually good, albeit a bit gruesome.