THE AFTERMATH

EFTERSPILLET – THE AFTERMATH

By Anne Mette Hancock

JOURNALIST HELOISE KALDAN has built her career on other people’s tragedies. Her true crime podcast, The Aftermath, has quickly become the most listened to in the country, and she invites homicide detective Erik Schäfer into the studio to talk about the case that made him a prominent figure in Danish criminal history: the solving of seven brutal murders committed by the artist Hans Verni. The day after the broadcast, Copenhagen wakes up to yet another murder. A young woman is found dead in the courtyard behind the Catholic Church, stabbed to death and positioned in the same elaborate manner as Verni left his victims.

SCHÄFER IS CONVINCED that a copycat is at work, but as Heloise begins to dig into the case, her doubts grow. Have Schäfer and his old partner put an innocent man in prison? What is he hiding from her? As time goes by, Heloise has to ask herself who is actually manipulating whom. The Aftermath is the fourth book in the series about journalist Heloise Kaldan and investigator Erik Schäfer.