WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD
- previous winners include Henning Mankell Jo Nesbo Karin Fossum Stieg Larsson & Arnaldur Indridason A car is found on a deserted beach on the Spanish island of Fuerteventura On the back seat lies a cardboard box containing the body of a small boy buried in newspaper cuttings No one knows his name & there is no trace of a driver The last thing an ailing tourist resort needs is a murder & the police are desperate to close the case The island is rife with rumours about the reclusive Erhard Two decades of self-imposed exile from his wife & children have left him alienated & alone whiling away his days in a drunken haze driving an old taxi to get by This unlikeliest of detectives determines to solve the crime himself
- & he has nothing to lose But how can one old man cut off from the modern world solve a murder whose dangerous web of deceit stretches far beyond the small island? & what if the killer forces Erhard to confront his own long-buried past? Winner of the prestigious Glass Key Award & an instant bestseller in Denmark The Hermit is taking the international publishing world by storm Acutely observed & psychologically penetrating this is existential noir at its finest