The Tenant

 For our travel month with the Mystery Book Club, we read mysteries set in Scandinavia. We had an especially hot summer here and we thought the setting might cool us off.

I read The Tenant by Katrine Engberg. It is book one in the Korner and Werner series.

About:  When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who’s a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a budding novelist—and when Julie turns up as a murder victim in the still-unfinished mystery she’s writing, the link between fiction and real life grows both more urgent and more dangerous.

But Esther’s role in this twisted scenario is not quite as clear as it first seems. Is she the culprit—or just another victim, trapped in a twisted game of vengeance? Anette and Jeppe must dig more deeply into the two women’s pasts to discover the identity of the brutal puppet-master pulling the strings in this electrifying literary thriller."

I really liked this book. It was definitely a fast pace thriller. The relationship between the two detectives, Jeppe Korner and Anette Werrner is interesting. There is some tension that makes it "interesting." Very clever plot with the crime following a book that a group of three are writing together like a writing club online. Lots of potential quirky characters that will keep you guessing.

A couple of the other members of the MCB read this book and liked it also. One person read book four, The Harbor. While she really enjoyed the book, she went back and read book one and recommends that you read this series in order. The Tenant gives you background information on Korner and Werner that is good to know.

There are five books in this series.

You can read about the author and the other books here:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Katrine-Engberg/158550112