The Woman In The Wall by Heidi Amsinck
The Woman in the Wall
by Heidi Amsinck
A gruesome discovery in a Copenhagen apartment. A desperate author’s dark secret. A stalker who will stop at nothing, to destroy everything…Jensen returns in her most sinister case yet.
When human remains turn up behind an apartment wall DI Henrik Jungersen finds himself on the trail of a killer who has been hiding in plain sight. Meanwhile, Jensen should be enjoying maternity leave but life has other plans. Legendary author, Valde Brix, is claiming to be her father. But Brix has an ulterior motive. Then a woman connected to Brix turns up brutally murdered, and Jensen and her teenage apprentice Gustav become embroiled in Henrik’s investigation. It soon becomes chillingly clear that the stalker will stop at nothing. And as the danger closes in Jensen realises the threat isn’t just to Brix – her own family is in mortal danger.
My Thoughts
Oh my goodness where to start other than to say that I was drawn into this spine tingling thriller straight away . I was fortunate enough to read Out of the Dark last year which I thought was exceptional and so to find that The Woman in the Wall is on a higher level again is incredible. I love the scandi noir and the characters of D I Henrik Jungersen and Jenson who were in the previous novels and they grow even more in your understanding of them throughout this book.
The storyline is superb and with all its different pathways it will keep you guessing about who committed the heinous crimes right until the end. Along side the crimes runs the narrative related to Jungersen and Jensens personal lives which gives you a strong feeling of knowing these two in some depth and wanting everything to be alright for them.
Once I started the book I couldn’t put it down as I had to find out more about what had happened and all the links that were involved with others aspects of the storyline. However, there is also that sense of not wanting to finish it knowing that it will most likely be another year before Heidi release the next novel.
These stories are definitely ones that you should explore if you are an avid reader crime fiction reader as I feel sure that you won’t be disappointed.
About Heidi
Heidi Amsinck a writer and journalist born in Copenhagen has lived in London for many years. A graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, she was previously shortlisted for the VS Pritchett Memorial Prize. She has written many stories for BBC Radio 4 including The Bellevue Poltergeist series which features Jensen. She is the author of four previous books in the Jensen series: My Name is Jensen, The Girl in the Photo, , Back from the Dead and Out of the Dark, as well a book of short stories, Last Train to Helsingor.
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