The Tenant

By: Katrine Engberg

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Selected as a Most Anticipated title by People, Parade, Bustle, CrimeReads, She Reads, and more!

An electrifying work of literary suspense from internationally best-selling author Katrine Engberg, The Tenant - heralded as a “stunning debut” by number one New York Times best-selling author Kathy Reichs - follows two Copenhagen police detectives struggling to solve a shocking murder and stop a killer hell-bent on revenge.

When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen Police Detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who’s a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a budding novelist - and when Julie turns up as a murder victim in the still-unfinished mystery she’s writing, the link between fiction and real life grows both more urgent and more dangerous.

But Esther’s role in this twisted scenario is not quite as clear as it first seems. Is she the culprit - or just another victim, trapped in a twisted game of vengeance? Anette and Jeppe must dig more deeply into the two women’s pasts to discover the identity of the brutal puppet-master pulling the strings.

Evocative and original, The Tenant promises “dark family secrets - and a smorgasbord of surprises” (People).

©2020 Katrine Engberg (P)2020 Simon & Schuster Audio

Best audiobook I’ve listened to in forever

A story full of mysteries and surprises, with that great Scandinavian atmosphere and style. Could not be narrated better. Highly recommend!

Took me a few chapters..,

I had to stay with this book. The first few chapters did not immediately engage me, but I’m glad I stayed with it. It’s a well tall story, although I think the ending dragged out a bit.

Interesting and captivating.

It did grip me from the very start. This murder mystery was well written and thought provoking. A bit slow in some areas but the end was well put together.

Scandanavian almost noir.

Fun read. Will or should be a film. Twisty plot and a fun listen by a wintry fire.

Good listen

Ambitious book. There's character development, a more complex story line and the narrator makes it all work. But as a painting can be overworked and a bit contrived, found the beginning to be so, hence story a bit tedious but picked up in the middle to a more spritely end that was satisfying.

An entertaining story that kept me guessing

A fun “who done it” set in Copenhagen. Definitely relies on some tropes common to the genre — world weary detective with a functional drug problem going through a divorce — but the story was interesting enough to keep me listening. Pulpy Danish entertainment for fans of crime novels.

Great Story, slow start

Maybe this was a case of listening to my first translated audiobook, or maybe it is the story, I felt it hard to get into. after about a third of the way in, I started getting hooked as the story unfolded

The Tenant

This book was a nice listen when riding home. I wish the ending had been different, but none the less it was a good book.

Confusing

I made it through the book. Had to rewind a couple times. I found the story hard to follow, and hard to keep the characters straight. Great narration by Graeme Malcolm.

Life can be complicated

The characters are brought to life, you like them and you dislike them - they are real. You see that the flap of the butterfly’s wings do make a difference.