"One October morning in a quiet suburb, the police make a terrible discovery. A young woman is found brutally murdered with one of her hands missing. Above her hangs a small doll made of chestnuts. Examining the doll, Forensics are shocked to find a fingerprint belonging to a young girl, kidnapped and murdered a year ago. A pair of detectives must put aside their differences to piece together the Chestnut Man's gruesome clues"--Back cover.
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…