The Night Ferry
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
A riveting crime novel from the internationally bestselling authors of The Hanging and The Girl in the Ice--the fifth book in the Konrad Simonsen series.
Sixteen children and four adults are killed in a devastating boat crash in Copenhagen. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is called in, only to discover that this was no accident and that one of the passengers has a very personal connection to the homicide team.
Reeling from this revelation and not knowing who to trust, Simonsen follows a trail that eventually leads him to Bosnia and a network of criminal misconduct. All evidence points towards one shady figure: a high-ranking army specialist with a suspicious past. But the more Simonsen digs, the further the truth slips from his grasp.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the harrowing first chapter of the Hammers' tour de force fifth thriller featuring Det. Chief Supt. Konrad "Simon" Simonsen (after 2017's The Lake), an assassin leaps aboard a tourist boat on a Copenhagen canal that's filled mostly with children and fatally stabs the captain, the tour guide, and two other adults. A woman he spares jumps into the canal, where she drowns; the killer plunges into the water and swims to safety. The boat drifts into the harbor, where it's cut in half by a night ferry; most of the children perish under the ferry's propellers. Simon and his team soon learn that one stabbing victim is Pauline Berg, part of the Copenhagen homicide department's inner circle, whom everyone thought was on vacation but was in fact pursuing a two-year-old unsolved case with which she was obsessed. The ensuing investigation of the boat massacre leads Simon and his talented, ethical crew to an international conspiracy of silence involving the neglect of damaged veterans of the Bosnian War. This masterly indictment of bureaucratic ineptitude, mismanagement, and corruption is a must-read.
