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A review by candacesiegle_greedyreader
The Tenant by Katrine Engberg
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