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A Nordic noir thriller from the happiest country on earth? I think this is the first Nordic noir I have read set in Denmark. A beautiful young woman is found dead in her apartment by another tenant of the building they share with a recently retired professor. Esther de Laurenti, their landlady is writing a book, a crime thriller, and she is horrified about the murder - for the obvious reason of one of her tenants being killed in the building she owns happening to one of her tenants in her building but also in an awful case of fiction becoming reality, the details of the murder mimic Esther's story. Detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are called in to investigate. As this is the first book in a series, these characters are still being developed. Esther shares her manuscript on a Google doc with two friends and fellow authors - Anna Harlov and Erik Kingo. Suspicion immediately falls on these two, but also on Kristoffer, a young friend and companion of Esther's. There are lots of trails to follow but it took me a while to fully get into the story.

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1.5

Snooze fest. Sorry but this was very boring. It was a bit too much like a normal murder investigation for me and there weren’t enough actually suspects to keep the book interesting. IMO I would not have killed off the main suspect. It didn’t make any sense. I also didn’t like the detectives. They didn’t seem to make sense together and the injection of the smut when Jeppe met one of the witnesses was not needed and off putting. I think the book relied too much on the “copying the murder from the book” to push it through and it needed more than that.