Søren Sveistrup Libri

Troppe cornacchie si aggirano freneticamente attorno a un maiale morto, un'immagine inquietante che attira l'attenzione di un agente di polizia, a una settimana dalla pensione. Fermandosi davanti a una fattoria nei pressi di Copenaghen, percepisce immediatamente che qualcosa non va. Con cautela, apre la porta socchiusa e si trova di fronte a una scena orribile: un cadavere mutilato e altri corpi da scavalcare. Nella stanza finale, centinaia di figure fatte di castagne e fiammiferi lo osservano in silenzio, mentre l'assassino lo scruta da lontano. Inizia così la storia dell'Uomo delle castagne, un thriller di alto livello, primo romanzo di Søren Sveistrup, noto per la serie tv The Killing. La narrazione complessa presenta un assassino disumano che si muove con una cupezza ineguagliabile, mentre due detective, un uomo e una donna, intraprendono un'indagine angosciante. La loro ricerca li costringe a esplorare la mente di un individuo ossessionato, in un gioco di inganni e rivelazioni. Ogni capitolo offre una nuova pista, solo per poi costringere a cambiare direzione, poiché l'Uomo delle castagne ha pianificato tutto e ricorda ogni dettaglio, mentre gli altri, finti innocenti, hanno dimenticato.

A young woman is found brutally murdered in a playground and one of her hands is missing. Above her hangs a small doll made of chestnuts. Ambitious young detective Naia Thulin is assigned the case. Her partner, Mark Hess, is a burned-out investigator who's just been kicked out of Europol

A page-turning adaptation of the first season of the original Danish television series The Killing, from the author of the Detective Nic Costa series Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs . . . There is a bright monocular eye that follows, like a hunter after a wounded deer. It moves in a slow approaching zigzag, marching through the Pineseskoven wasteland, through the Pentecost Forest. The chill water, the fear, his presence not so far away . . . There is one torchlight on her now, the single blazing eye. And it is here. Sarah Lund is looking forward to her last day as a detective with the Copenhagen Police department before moving to Sweden. But everything changes when 19-year-old student Nanna Birk Larsen is found raped and brutally murdered in the woods outside the city. Lund's plans to relocate are put on hold as she leads the investigation along with fellow detective Jan Meyer. While Nanna's family struggles to cope with their loss, local politician Troels Hartmann is in the middle of an election campaign to become the new mayor of Copenhagen. When links between City Hall and the murder suddenly come to light, the case takes an entirely different turn. Over the course of 20 days, suspect upon suspect emerges as violence and political intrigue cast their shadows over the hunt for the killer.

Копенгаген дрожит перед деяниями психопата. Его визитная карточка – каштановый человечек, фигурка из каштанов и спичек, которую он всякий раз оставляет на месте очередного кровавого преступления. Исследовав эти фигурки, криминалисты пришли к шокирующему выводу: на каштановых человечках оставлены отпечатки пальцев маленькой дочери известной женщины-политика. Но девочка пропала и предположительно убита год назад, а человек, признавшийся в этом злодеянии, уже сидит в тюрьме… Что это – случайность или чей-то хитроумный и жуткий расчет? Выяснить это должны два копенгагенских детектива. И выяснить быстро, поскольку всем ясно: неведомый маньяк только начал. И останавливаться не собирается…

Ich sehe dich. Ich höre dich. Und dann bin ich dir ganz nah ... Hab dich. Das ist die letzte Nachricht auf Silje Thomsens Handy, ehe die geschiedene Mutter an einem verregneten Februartag in Kopenhagen spurlos verschwindet. Kommissarin Naia Thulin ist sofort alarmiert. Denn genau diese Botschaft bekam auch eine 19-jährige Schülerin, kurz bevor sie ermordet wurde. Steckt derselbe Täter dahinter? Naia muss ausgerechnet mit dem verschlossenen Mark Hess zusammenarbeiten, den sie nach ihrem letzten gemeinsamen Fall um den „Kastanienmann“ nicht mehr wiedersehen wollte. Doch bevor sie einer ersten Spur folgen können, wird eine brutal zugerichtete Frauenleiche gefunden – und es gibt einen neuen Vermisstenfall. Die letzte Nachricht auf dem Handy des Vermissten: Hab dich …