Saturday, October 19, 2019

Eight top books for scary-story season

At B&N Reads Tara Sonin tagged eight suspenseful stories to tide you over until Halloween, including:
The Chestnut Man, by Soren Sveistrup

Scandinavian thriller fans, meet: the Chestnut Man. In Copenhagen, he is killing seemingly at whim, leaving behind tokens of his villainy in the form of dolls made of matchsticks and chestnuts. When fingerprints are found on one of the dolls, a team of detectives with an axe to grind must team up and find the killer. What you think is a straight procedural murder mystery is full of layers and depth—with a female detective at the helm, and an ending that will almost shock the life out of you.
Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue