Title Details

The Preacher
Buy Rights Online Interested in buying rights? Click here to make an offer

Rights Contact Login For More Details

More About This Title The Preacher

  • English

English

An astonishingly clever thriller with a killer hook, for fans of commercial Scandi-crime

Thorkild Christensen stares down at his murdered wife, Karen, and realizes he knows almost nothing about her. How did she fill her days? Where did she disappear to every Thursday? Lead investigator Detective Thea Krogh is determined to find out. And then a second woman is shot dead. There is seemingly nothing to link the two victims, and the police move on, desperate for a lead. But someone out there has a deadly secret. And as events begin to play out—masterminded by a strange and bewitching figure—all of their worlds are about to come crashing down. An ingenious thriller from an exciting new Danish talent. Will you guess the secret to unlock the killer twist?

  • English

English

Sander Jakobsen is the pseudonym for Danish writing duo Dagmar Winther and Kenneth Degnbol. The Preacher is their debut novel.
  • English

English

"A deceptively clever thriller. . . . The authors translated the novel themselves, and it shows. There’s none of the stilted, overly-formal prose that often afflicts translated fiction. Quite the contrary; there are often little shots of poetry . . . that give the novel an unexpected gravitas, but not at the expense of plot or action. . . . The Preacher holds its own among the the Scandi-crime competing for our attention, and is, I think, ahead of the pack when it comes to the quality of the prose and the subtlety of the themes."  —Killing Time"Something completely new and different than other current Danish crime novels’ mix of graphic horror and alcoholic investigators. We have peace, provincial life and existentialism all in one.”  —Politiken
loading