![]() The Chestnut Man is heavily researched and replete with juicy details of murders, dismemberments, forensic science, and the like. The HarperCollins publicists claim that Sveistrup may be the next Stieg Larsson (Swedish author of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy) or Jo Nesbø (Norwegian author of the great Harry Hole mysteries). The author of The Chestnut Man is Søren Sveistrup, a Danish scriptwriter and film producer, perhaps best known on this side of the Atlantic for the AMC television series “The Killing,” which was adapted from a Danish TV series (and sold to more than a hundred countries). And, voila, I was right! I may take that strategy to the racetrack.) ![]() (I did identify someone I thought so unlikely that I made the character my chief suspect. ![]() The book is so chockfull of them that it seemed half of Copenhagen (population 777, 218) might be guilty of the brutal crimes detailed therein. ![]() (Not the actual fish, of course, but the revenue it generates.) Which brings us to The Chestnut Man, a mystery which has schools of herring, of the red variety. Indeed, Copenhagen was a city built on herring. ![]()
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