Dark thriller that had you hooked from the off. The book was very well written, flows well. Great plot. Very exciting. Fast paced to get your heart racing. Loved this book

I love a good scandi crime novel but this really wasn't up to scratch. Story didn't flow, writing didn't flow

I am a great fan of Scandinavian crime fiction but was disappointed in this novel. Consequently, I struggled and did not finish it.

When a young lady is murdered two detectives, Korner and Werner, are sent to investigate what happened. The Pair set out to find out why this twisted murder happened. This is the first in a series.
I’m not a massive fan of Nordic books which is why I struggled with it slightly but this will appeal greatly to a mass market so it’s me as the reader who is at fault not the book. Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for this arc in exchange for my honest review

Although well written with a gripping plot, I just couldn’t quite get fully into this book.
The characters are interesting and the plot is suspenseful and full of twists but it was a bit too ‘slow burn’ for me I think.
Well worth a read if you’re into Scandi mystery though, which I do enjoy.

Enjoyed this book. It's dark and twisty and moves along at a good pace. A good few twists to keep you guessing. Great example of Scandi noir!

This one didn't do it at all for me. I found it very clunky and hadnt got a clue what was going on a lot of the time so I DNF.

On the surface, The Tenant has everything I want in a book: murder, mystery, secrets that need to be revealed. For all that, though, something was missing. The story was just too slow. There weren’t enough twists and turns and it took too long to get from the ‘big reveal’ to the end.

I also struggled to connect to the main characters. Jeppe has many of the characteristics you find in other police procedurals – he’s dour, coming off a failed relationship, drinks too much, and acts impulsively. Yet, where as these things often make me feel for a character, and even root for them, here, they just annoyed me because there weren’t any redeeming qualities to off-set his negative ones. He didn’t seem particularly supportive of his team, didn’t seem particularly intuitive in his thinking, and didn’t seem willing to put his life on the line to solve the case.

I am not sure how much of this can be blamed on the story, and how much falls at the door of the translation. This was clunky in places, which made reading heavy going. I found myself re-reading sentences in places to try and understand what was being said. While in others I drifted because of how wordy the sentences were. I have a huge amount of respect for translators, I think it is an art to get a story written in another language across in a way that keeps the reader engage. I just think here it fell short.

It is a shame, as it does sound like it should have been a good read. Still, you can’t win them all…onward to the next murder 😉

Wow, what a story. I loved each character in different ways although how they were linked was certainly confusing at times. A proper murder mystery with a shocking ending. My first book by this author but it certainly won't be my last.

I was excited to read this book because the premise is really interesting and thrilling. But the writing wasn't for me. I ended up DNFing because I was so bored and the characters were just awful.

An enjoyable Nordic noir. The translation is good as sometimes they can be clunky to read.
A young girl’s body is found in her apartment. The media call the murderer “The Knife Monster?” But why has he targeted the young tenant? And is there going to be more murders? Give this a go. It’s fairly slow but it’s good.

Lots of ups and downs in this story. Some problems with translations at times. The storyline was interesting but seemed to take a long time to reach a conclusion.

The Tenant is an intense and twisty Scandi crime novel set in Copenhagen. The first book in the Kørner & Werner series has a refreshingly fast pace and a compelling and surprising plot. The writing uses vivid imagery, and the characters are multifaceted. With a convincing investigation team dynamic and balanced personal and investigation details, it keeps its secrets until the end.

I received a copy of this book from Hodder and Stoughton via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

I enjoyed this book and don't understand some of the negative reviews. This is a great suspense book with lots of twists and turns that keep you guessing all the way through.

I love a bit of Scandinavian crime and The Tenant ticked all of my boxes. Set in Denmark, a strange murder and bizarre coincidences along with the past coming back to haunt the characters. It sounds good.

Now don’t get me wrong it is good but it took a good while to truly get in to the book, it starts with the discovery of Julie Stender, a young woman renting an apartment within a small building in Copenhagen, her body bears the marks of a madman. Strange marks have been left upon her skin. Who took this young woman’s life?

The local police detectives start to look in to the case, Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner start to sift through the evidence and find that the landlady Esther may have something to do with the murder. Esther is a novelist in the making and her manuscript holds a story which contains a mystery in which a young woman is murdered, a young woman who was based on Julie.

Is Esther the murderer or is someone else to blame?

The Tenant once I got over the halfway mark was an enjoyable read, it was just that little bit slow to get in to despite the gruesome discovery, it may be because The Tenant is a translated book and of course we know that things can be lost in translation. Despite that it is the start of a series of which I do have the next book lined up to read and I am looking forward to it, the setting was great, the characters interesting and I’m curious to see where they go next.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.

A fascinating read set in Copenhagen, this book had an interesting storyline from the start.
The story was unique, the setting wonderful and the characters all added new depths to this book.

It took me quite a long time to get into this story, despite the brutal murder discovered at the very beginning.

I agree with other reviews, that the translation is very clunky in places, especially at the start of the book, and throws you out of the narrative flow. However, if you can persevere, there is a pretty impressively twisted plot to follow that keeps you reading after you find out who the perpetrator is, to see 'what happens in the end'. The police procedures are well-detailed throughout, without getting bogged down; it all seemed very realistic, right down to the office personalities and little habits.

Jeppe and Anette are an unlikeable duo at the start which doesn't help, but looking back, adds authenticity. They grow on you, as does the translation. There are some lovely and unusual observations which are phrased in the author's language and translated directly, and while this doesn't always work, once you're absorbed in the Danish city and the characters, it becomes charming. And insightful. I think it's always interesting to see how other languages' colloquialisms and expressions work with body language and by the end of this book, you can picture the main characters very well.

This is what tipped it into a 4-star read. At the beginning, it is solidly a 2.5 possibly 3. As you progress, it becomes a 3.5 and that is fair, considering the inauspicious start. However, the realistically-drawn characters and the fact that I would read more stories with the lead detectives gives it the benefit of the doubt.

An impressive debut.

Im not really too sure what to say about this book, the synopsis made it sound awesome but for me it felt strange, I honestly can't find a better word🤷🏻‍♀️I struggled to follow the plot, and I wonder if that's because of the translations, and what I could follow I didn't understand. I'm sure that it's probably just me, and that, really, this is a fantastic story. However, I cannot recommend what I couldn't finish.

I looked forward to this book for the longest time but in the end I just couldn't force myself to finish it. The premise is really interesting and it had a lot of potential but the downfalls for me made it unbearable. 1. It was a very slow start. 2. The characters seemed 2 dimensional, like they had been pulled from a How To of writing a crime novel 3. I'm sure in it's original language it is compelling, but the translation was clunky and kept taking me out of the narrative. Also there were references that didn't make a lot.of sense unless you were from there. I was bitterly disappointed.

The Tenant is everything I love about Nordic Noir. A slow-burn suspense novel, The Tenant is a police procedural but with a difference. When a man finds a woman dead in his apartment block, the police investigating the murder find links to her landlady Esther, who is also working on a manuscript about a suspicious murder. As the investigation continues, they discover that the book has similarities to the real-life murder. This is the perfect blend of murder mystery and bookish suspense, perfect for all thriller and mystery fans, especially those looking for a Nordic Noir with a bit of a twist!