Only news about Gorbachev and Reagan, and speculation about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Marius fiddles irritably with the frequency on the car radio, but he can’t find what he’s looking for. But not today – today he has to focus on the conversation. He’s been on the force forty-one years, senior officer at the station for the last seventeen, and he has to prod them about it every single autumn. If the leaves are left too long they’ll make the surface slippery, and that sort of thing can cost lives. Marius Larsen takes his foot off the accelerator and eases up for the bend, making a mental note to tell the council they need to come out here with the sweeper. As the white squad car tears past, they’re spun briefly in the air before coming to rest in sticky clumps along the edge of the road. Red and yellow leaves drift down through the sunlight onto the wet asphalt, which cuts through the woods like a dark and glassy river. Read on for an extract from The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup! Thulin and Hess are racing against the clock, because it’s clear that the murderer is on a mission that is far from over… Thulin and Hess suspect that there’s a connection between the Hartung case, the murdered women and a killer who is spreading fear throughout the country. Soon afterwards, another woman is found murdered, along with another chestnut man. A man confessed to her murder, and the case is long since solved. They soon discover a mysterious piece of evidence on the chestnut man – evidence connecting it to a girl who went missing a year earlier and is presumed dead, the daughter of politician Rosa Hartung. Her partner is Mark Hess, a burned-out investigator who’s just been kicked out of Europol. Young detective Naia Thulin is assigned the case. One of her hands has been cut off, and above her hangs a small doll made of chestnuts. A young woman has been killed and dumped at a playground. The police make a terrible discovery in a suburb of Copenhagen.

From the creator of hit TV show The Killing comes The Chestnut Man, a nail-biting thriller which follows the race to find a serial killer terrorizing Copenhagen.