Death Sentence (Paperback)
Mikkel Birkegaard (author), Charlotte Barslund (translator)Published: 23/10/2017
A murder committed on paper, safely within the confines of a novel, is one thing. To see that same crime in the real world, is something else entirely. . .
Frank Føns is a very successful crime writer. His novels, famed for their visceral descriptions of violent death, have made him a household name. But now someone is copying his crimes. For Frank what once seemed a clever, intriguing plot twist, has suddenly become a terrifying, blood-spattered reality.
In the novel, a redhead who was scared of water is drowned. In the mirror-image of the real world, she has become an ex-girlfriend chained and left to die at the bottom of the harbour. A corrupt police-officer tortured to death becomes a contact who dies with fear in his eyes. Someone is taking Franks' fiction and using it to destroy his life. The writer must become the detective.
In fiction, the bad guy always gets caught, but in real life there is no such guarantee. Fear becomes real. The knife cut hurts like hell. Our narrator may not survive. No-one is promising you a happy ending. For Frank what had once been a game is now a matter of life and death.
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9781784163167
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 273 g
Dimensions: 198 x 127 x 24 mm
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“Suspenseful but hold on to your lunch at the end!”
I read this as part of the Transworld Book Group.
Death sentence, a Danish murder mystery, tells the story of a troubled author who discovers that someone is fanatically re-enacting the murders from his own murder...
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“A great read, but a bit too graphic in places!”
Having read and thoroughly enjoyed Mikkel Birkegaard's first novel' The Library of Shadows', I was eagerly awaiting the release of Death Sentence. From the opening line you are gripped and just... More
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