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kaceyp14's review against another edition
3.0
Liked it a lot until about 3/4 of the way through. Then it seemed too predictable.
hm_brotherton's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
candacesiegle_greedyreader's review against another edition
4.0
I'd been hankering for a good Nordic Noir novel, and "The Tenant" hit the mark. Thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the egalley.
An elderly tenant of a Copenhagen apartment building stumbles going down the stairs while taking the garbage out and falls through the open door of his downstairs neighbor, landing on her dead body. The young woman has been murdered, a strange pattern cut into her face.
The detectives assigned to the case are Jeppe Koerner and Annette Werner. Jeppe has recently fallen apart following his divorce and we don't know much about Annette except that she and her husband have border collies and adore each other. They learn that the building owner, a recently retired professor who lives on the third floor, is writing a novel that describes the crime scene quite accurately.
It's good. The detectives need to be better developed but there's enough there to carry the reader along. The end is a little convoluted but not absurdly so. "The Tenant" lacks that piece of creepiness that makes Nordic Noir so weird, but from page one to the end, it will draw you along.
~~Candace Siegle, Greedy Reader
An elderly tenant of a Copenhagen apartment building stumbles going down the stairs while taking the garbage out and falls through the open door of his downstairs neighbor, landing on her dead body. The young woman has been murdered, a strange pattern cut into her face.
The detectives assigned to the case are Jeppe Koerner and Annette Werner. Jeppe has recently fallen apart following his divorce and we don't know much about Annette except that she and her husband have border collies and adore each other. They learn that the building owner, a recently retired professor who lives on the third floor, is writing a novel that describes the crime scene quite accurately.
It's good. The detectives need to be better developed but there's enough there to carry the reader along. The end is a little convoluted but not absurdly so. "The Tenant" lacks that piece of creepiness that makes Nordic Noir so weird, but from page one to the end, it will draw you along.
~~Candace Siegle, Greedy Reader
talss_'s review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
gabmc's review against another edition
3.0
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.
calmcelebration9888's review against another edition
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.
billerdakotah's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5