Løbende tjener - Dennis Jürgensen

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Title: Løbende tjener (Roland Triel #1)
Author: Dennis Jürgensen
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 487
Date read: December, 2023

Frans Jessen har skabt en milliardforretning med sine designersmykker.
Efter en omfattende sag om ophavsretten findes den ene af de involverede parter myrdet på makaber vis, og jagten begynder på en skånselsløs morder.

I spidsen for efterforskningen står den erfarne Roland Triel fra Politigården i København.

Triel lider under en personlig tragedie.
For få år siden blev hans kone brutalt myrdet i deres hjem og hans 13-årige datter mishandlet.
Sagen er aldrig blevet opklaret, og Triel er besat af tanken om at finde den skyldige.

Midt i arbejdet med den aktuelle drabssag giver Triels kones morder uventet livstegn fra sig.

Efterforskningslederen hvirvles nu ind i et mørkt psykologisk spil med den forbryder, han vil gøre alt for at fange.


Dennis Jürgensen's talent cannot be denied. He writes ridiculously readable books, and this was no exception. It took me all of 5 pages to be hooked, and if I hadn't had Christmas plans I'd probably have finished it in a day.

This is a suspense novel much in the same style as Chris Carter's Robert Hunter series - although fortunately not quite as graphic in its violence. I'd guessed some of the twists ahead of time, but definitely not all of them... and there was also something I'd thought was a twist, but which may just be setting up something for one of the later books in the series. I was slightly disappointed by the ending - it seemed too easy, somehow.

Though the first in the series, it can be read as a stand-alone novel too. The main plot is nicely contained, although there is an overreaching arch that's left open.