TROLDMANDEN – THE WITCHER
By Jacob Jonia
With the help of experts, our author Jacob Jonia has solved a murder that the Travel Unit was forced to classify as suicide at the time.
Harald Plum, millionaire, “goulash baron”, and businessman, has used his charisma and financial acumen to persuade people to invest large sums in his ventures. But in the fall of 1929, warning signs flash when journalist Nete Schwartz publishes a small, explosive book revealing Plum’s empire, which involves both the royal family and the political elite.
The Roaring Twenties have left almost no mark on Otto Himmelstrup, head of the Travel Unit. When he meets Plum, however, he also encounters a world that offers not only luxury, pleasure, and sexual debauchery, but also a joy he has missed all his life: seizing the moment. Rejecting society’s demands to conform.
When Plum is apparently subjected to several murder attempts on his private island off Assens, Himmelstrup and his men dive into a morass of big money, intrigue, and lies. No one can trust anyone, not even within the team, and when Himmelstrup’s own mother disowns him, he is more alone than ever before.
The Witcher is the third volume in the series about the first Danish mobile police unit, The Travel Unit.
ABOUT THE BOOK
First published by People’s Press, Denmark 2023
RIGHTS SOLD
Denmark, People’s Press
Bulgaria, Colibri
REVIEWS
Jonia is a good narrator with a sense of atmosphere and what is called emplotment. His ability to weave historical events into a fictional setting is convincing.
– Politiken
Jacob Jonia masters this genre to perfection.
– Din Boganmelder
A sophisticated and exciting historical crime novel.
– Læselysten.dk
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