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About the product • Instant New York Times bestseller • Rights to Max Seck’s books sold in over 40 countries • The first part of the trilogy, opening the cycle about detective Jessica Niemi • For fans of U Nesbo and Stig Larsson. • «A Creepy Story of Murder and Madness» — Kirkus Reviews The new author in the «Thriller Scandinavian» series is a brilliant master of northern noir. Max Seck began his writing career in 2016, and five years later he achieved real success, and his book «The Witch Hunter» became a bestseller according to the New York Times. This terrifying thriller with a truly addictive plot opens the cycle about detective Jessica Niemi. The wife of the famous writer Roger Koponen was found dead. A murder is framed monstrously: a corpse dressed in a luxurious evening dress is seated at the head of the dining table. A series of terrible murders shakes Helsinki. The psychopath seems to be reenacting scenes from Koponen’s Witch Hunt trilogy. But gradually detective Jessica Niemi realizes that the perpetrator is not acting alone. It seems that adherents of a certain cult are operating in the city with inhuman cruelty … Annotation The wife of the famous writer Roger Koponen was killed. At first, everyone is sure that the woman became the victim of an insane admirer of her husband’s work. But the ensuing series of ritual murders that shook Helsinki leads detective Jessica Niemi to believe that a serial killer is at work in the city. A mad fanatic who pretends to be an inquisitor plays the grisly murders from Roger’s bestseller, The Witch Hunter. Is it possible to predict the next step of a criminal who knows every detail of the book better than the author himself? But the further the investigation progresses, the more obvious: the killer does not act alone, adherents of a strange cult, who are always one step ahead of the police, are involved in the crimes. Jessica is confident that the fanatics won’t stop until they get what they want. …
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