The Corpse Flower (A Kaldan and Scháfer Mystery) by Anne Mette Hancock

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The Corpse Flower (A Kaldan and Scháfer Mystery) by Anne Mette Hancock

Here’s a description of the book!🍂

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo meets Sharp Objects in this internationally bestselling psychological thriller, for fans of Jo Nesbø and Henning Mankell, now for the first time in English.
  

Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare. One of her sources has been caught lying, and she could lose her job over it. Then she receives the first in a series of cryptic and unsettling letters from a woman named Anna Kiel. 

Wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of a young lawyer three years earlier, Anna hasn't been seen by anyone since she left the crime scene covered in blood. The police think she's fled the country until homicide detective Erik Scháfer comes up with a lead after the reporter who originally wrote about the case is found murdered in his apartment. Has Anna Kiel struck again, or is there more than one killer at large? And why does every clue point directly to Heloise Kaldan? 

Meanwhile, the letters keep coming, and they hint at a connection between Anna and Heloise. As Heloise starts digging deeper, she realizes that to tell Anna's story she will have to revisit the darkest parts of her own past--confronting someone she swore she'd never see again. 

  

The Corpse Flower is the first in the #1 bestselling Danish crime series, the Kaldan and Scháfer mysteries. 

🍂Non Spoiler Review🍂

This is my very first Nordic Noir book I ever read. I was highly impressed and plan on reading more books like this. Especially the looking forward to this series. It’s a great story so I hope you want to take the time to get to know these characters & see where they go. 

Have you read Nordic Noir books before? If so, what do you love about them? 

You can also check out this review on my personal blog. Always grateful for the opportunity to read & review. 

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A Memoir Stolen Elizabeth Gilpin

 At fifteen, Elizabeth Gilpin was an honor student, a state-ranked swimmer and a rising soccer star, but behind closed doors her undiagnosed depression was wreaking havoc on her life. Growing angrier by the day, she began skipping practices and drinking to excess. At a loss, her parents turned to an educational consultant who suggested Elizabeth be enrolled in a behavioral modification program. That recommendation would change her life forever. 

The nightmare began when she was abducted from her bed in the middle of the night by hired professionals and dropped off deep in the woods of Appalachia. Living with no real shelter was only the beginning of her ordeal: she was strip-searched, force-fed, her name was changed to a number and every moment was a test of physical survival.  

After three brutal months, Elizabeth was transferred to a boarding school in Southern Virginia that in reality functioned more like a prison. Its curriculum revolved around a perverse form of group therapy where students were psychologically abused and humiliated. Finally, at seventeen, Elizabeth convinced them she was rehabilitated enough to “graduate” and was released. 

In this eye-opening and unflinching book, Elizabeth recalls the horrors she endured, the friends she lost to suicide and addiction, and—years later—how she was finally able to pick up the pieces of her life and reclaim her identity.

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Wow oh Wow. This Memoir is a Must Read. I cannot say how many times I was in tears with this book. I also listened along to it with Audible. It’s such a compelling story that really resonates and draws in the reader. I could not imagine all what Elizabeth had to go through. I want to Thank her for telling her story. This is a hard read. I’ll say that. It’s a read though that tells her story and draws the reader in. This will stick with me for quite sometime. 🌟🌟🌟🌟.💫 read from me. Add it to your TBR list.