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A Novel
by Soren Sveistrup
The author of The Chestnut Man and creator of the hit television series The Killing returns with a twisty, breakneck psychological thriller that takes an innocent children's game to its most terrifying and diabolical extreme.
Count to one, count to two ...
A strange voice from inside the woods, repeating a child's counting rhyme.
Count to four, count to five ...
A body discovered in the water.
You're trying to go home. Will you make it alive?
Thirty years later, a woman begins receiving a string of anonymous text messages, repeating that same rhyme.
Found you.
Then she disappears ...
On Valentine's Day, detectives Naia Thulin and Mark Hess are searching to find the missing woman. But when they uncover links to a decades-old cold case, their investigation takes a terrifying turn.
A violent killer is on the loose. Can Hess and Thulin catch them, before they strike again?
"Brutal, sweeping, and emotionally grounded, this is Scandi noir at its best. Sveistrup proves himself a master of his craft." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A mystery so complicated you may want to take notes, but still quite a ride." —Kirkus Reviews
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Søren Sveistrup is an internationally acclaimed scriptwriter, creator, and film producer. From 2007 to 2012 he created and wrote The Killing, which has won several international awards, been sold to more than a hundred countries around the globe, and was remade for AMC by Fox Television Studios in the US. He lives in Copenhagen.
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