Book description
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.
Mikkel Birkegaard
lives in Copenhagen. He is also the author of
The Library of Shadows
. It was first published in his native Denmark where it was a national
bestseller, and has now gone on to be published in seventeen languages.
