Hide and Seek
A Novel
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3.9 • 14 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
The author of The Chestnut Man and creator of the hit television series The Killing returns with a twisty, breakneck psychological thriller that takes an innocent children’s game to its most terrifying and diabolical extreme.
Count to one, count to two . . .
A strange voice from inside the woods, repeating a child’s counting rhyme.
Count to four, count to five . . .
A body discovered in the water.
You’re trying to go home. Will you make it alive?
Thirty years later, a woman begins receiving a string of anonymous text messages, repeating that same rhyme.
Found you.
Then she disappears . . .
On Valentine’s Day, detectives Naia Thulin and Mark Hess are searching to find the missing woman. But when they uncover links to a decades-old cold case, their investigation takes a terrifying turn.
A violent killer is on the loose. Can Hess and Thulin catch them, before they strike again?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This atmospheric psychological thriller follows a troubled team of detectives as they discover links to a 30-year-old murder during a snowbound Scandinavian winter. It’s February in Copenhagen when Silje Thomsen starts receiving disturbing text messages that echo a children’s rhyme…and a heartbreaking tragedy from years before. When she disappears, detectives Naia Thulin and Mark Hess unearth tantalizing links to that same decades-old case. Nordic noir author Søren Sveistrup fills this dark thriller with all the breathless intensity we’ve come to expect, all while exploring serious themes of childhood neglect and trauma. Thulin and Hess are a smart and believably flawed team who made us feel immersed in their investigation—complete with red tape, personal issues, and too-full caseloads. With taut thrills and vivid atmosphere, Hide and Seek kept us excited from start to finish.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Copenhagen detectives Naia Thulin and Mark Hess investigate a series of murders that may be connected to a case from decades earlier in Sveistrup's brilliant sequel to The Chestnut Man. On Valentine's Day 2025, Thulin, now working for Denmark's National Cyber Crimes Unit, is assigned to find a young woman named Silje Thomsen, who has vanished after being been plagued by a stalker who texted her ominous countdowns. Thulin is also troubled by the unsolved murder, two years earlier, of 19-year-old high schooler Caroline Holst. The more Thulin digs into Silje and Caroline's cases, the more they echo a brutal 1992 child murder that Thulin's father was working just before he died of a heart attack. As Sveistrup knits all three cases together, he dives into the personal lives of Thulin, who is neglecting her new lover, Bjørn, in favor of work, and Hess, who has returned to Copenhagen from a Europol assignment in Moldova to help his sick brother. Though Thulin and Hess's relationship has grown complicated since they alienated their boss in the previous book, they team up again to immensely satisfying effect. Brutal, sweeping, and emotionally grounded, this is Scandi noir at its best. Sveistrup proves himself a master of his craft.
