Many thanks to NetGalley, Crooked Lane Books and Dreamscape Media for gifting me both a digital and audio ARC of the second in this series of Danish crime books by Anne Mette Hancock and wonderfully narrated by Laura Jennings - 4.5 stars rounded up! If you didn't read The Corpse Flower, this works well as a stand-alone, but much better together to see the character progression!
Ten-year-old Lukas disappeared from school and, unknown to his parents, he appears to have an interest in pareidolia, or seeing faces in inanimate objects. Journalist Heloise Kalan's friend was the last to see Lukas at school. Another of Heloise's friends, Detective Eric Schafer, is back from vacation and on the case to find Lukas. When is jacket is discovered in the river, DNA is traced back to a soldier suffering from PTSD. But things aren't what they appear to be.
I thought this book was even better than the first. It's a really intriguing look into what we see and how we process it. Just like Lukas' fascination with seeing faces in objects, how trustworthy are our eyewitness recollections? How easy is it to overlook something important in the mundane? This is a wonderful police procedural made better because it's a journalist and a detective, friends but with sometimes contrasting goals. I can't wait to read more books in this series!
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