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Ruthless by Anne Mette Hancock

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Also by Anne Mette Hancock:

Ruthless, October 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
The Collector, September 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Collector, November 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Corpse Flower, October 2022
Trade Paperback / e-Book

RUTHLESS
By: Anne Mette Hancock

A Novel

Kaldan and SchΓ‘fer Mystery #3
Crooked Lane Books
October 2023
On Sale: October 10, 2023
Featuring: Jan Frischof; Heloise Kaldan
336 pages
ISBN: 1639104895
EAN: 9781639104895
Kindle: B0BS2X5GN3
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery | Thriller Psychological | Thriller Crime

For fans of Jo Nesbø and Katrine Engberg, international bestselling author Anne Mette Hancock’s third thrilling novel in the series Harlan Coben calls “the best series I’ve read this year,” is a pulse-pounding Scandinavian noir about secrets, buried truths, and what happens when we go digging into the past.

When Jan Frischof, a dying elderly man, gives a deathbed confession too unbelievable to be true, journalist Heloise Kaldan immediately knows there’s a deeper story to uncover. Her gut soon proves to be right—Jan immediately backtracks and warns her that they will both be in danger if she asks any more questions. Could this kind and elderly man really be a cold-blooded killer?

Heloise quickly realizes that this is a darker, and far more complicated, investigation. Jan is clearly afraid of something, but who or what he’s afraid of could be a dangerous question for Heloise to find the answer to. As she digs deeper, Heloise begins to see that Jan's confession is connected to a string decades-old disappearances. But next of kin and police are lying to her at every turn, and she has no idea what else Jan could be hiding.

Enlisting her friend, detective inspector Erik Schäfer, Heloise begins her descent into the past, unsure of what she will unearth.