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The Hermit
The Hermit
The Hermit
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* THE MULTI-AWARD WINNING BESTSELLER FOR FANS OF THE BRIDGE *

Winner of the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel

Winner of the Danish Debutant Award

Winner of the Harald Mogensen Prize for the best Danish crime novel

A car is found on a deserted beach on the Spanish island of Fuerteventura. On the back seat lies a cardboard box containing the body of a small boy buried in newspaper cuttings. No one knows his name, and there is no trace of a driver. The last thing an ailing tourist resort needs is a murder, and the police are desperate to close the case.

The island is rife with rumours about the reclusive Erhard. Two decades of self-imposed exile from his wife and children have left him alienated and alone, whiling away his days in a drunken haze, driving an old taxi to get by. This unlikeliest of detectives determines to solve the crime himself – and he has nothing to lose. But how can one old man, cut off from the modern world, solve a murder whose dangerous web of deceit stretches far beyond the small island? And what if the killer forces Erhard to confront his own long-buried past?

Winner of the prestigious Glass Key Award and an instant bestseller in Denmark, The Hermit is taking the international publishing world by storm. Acutely observed and psychologically penetrating, this is existential noir at its finest.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPoint Blank
Release dateOct 6, 2016
ISBN9781780748900
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    I'm not sure if it was the story itself, or the translation that was lacking here, but I just never connected with the protagonist. I felt no empathy for this character, and therefore didn't feel like I was vested in this story. There were also quite a few episodes in the plot at which I could not suspend my disbelief enough to buy in to the plot.

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