''The Chestnut Man'' is the debut novel by the creator of the legendary Danish television series ''Forbrydelsen'' (3 seasons in total), Søren Sveistrup, and even though it is not a bad book, it certainly lacks the distinguishing marks that would set it at the top of the Nordic Noir genre/5(3K). · The Chestnut Man. by Søren Sveistrup. Translated from the Danish by Caroline Waight. US Release Date: September 3, This title received a lot of buzz in the Danish press upon its release in Denmark as Sveistrup is the creator and writer of the popular TV show The Killing and has many other TV and film writing credits to his name. And the Danish reviews lived up to all the buzz, . · The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup is a dark gritty thriller and an excellent debut from the creator of the hit television show The Killing. With a brilliant storyline, tense atmosphere and some great characters, this is one of the best crime novels I have read in a long time. Set in Denmark, a psychotic serial killer is terrorizing Copenhagen/5.
In case you haven't heard, Netflix is adapting Søren Sveistrup's breakout hit thriller novel The Chestnut Man into a series. Even better, the dark Scandinavian crime thriller comes straight. The Chestnut Man certainly lives up to its hype. If you love a gory story with many twists and turns then you will definitely want to pick up a copy of this book. This is definitely a five star read and one I wholeheartedly recommend. The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup is another fabulous buddy read with my friends. The following is an exclusive excerpt from The Chestnut Man, by Søren Sveistrup.A monstrous and attention-seeking serial killer has arrived in Copenhagen. He leaves a tiny handmade doll at the scene of each horrifying crime--but one of these dolls contains a clue.
The Chestnut Manbegins as far too many crime novels do, with a blast-from-the-past -- in this case, -- opening chapter that describes a horrific crime before shifting to the present day (and then waiting hundreds of pages before making the inevitable connection to this earlier crime). His calling card is a “chestnut man”—a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts—which he leaves at each bloody crime scene. Examining the dolls, forensics makes a shocking discovery—a fingerprint belonging to a young girl, a government minister’s daughter who had been kidnapped and murdered a year ago. Created by Søren Sveistrup, who also wrote the novel that The Chestnut Man is based on, The Killing (Danish: Forbrydelsen) is a Danish police procedural series. Three seasons of the show were broadcast in Denmark between and , each focusing on a different case.
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