"More cool, calm and collected Scandi-noir storytelling from Heidi Amsinck as Henrik and Jensen’s investigations dig up long kept secrets and dark pasts."
Following on from Heidi Amsinck’s debut novel My Name is Jensen, this sequel sees Jensen re-establishing roots in Copenhagen and starting out as a freelance journalist. Still experiencing the fallout from book one, DI Henrik Jungersen’s home life is on rocky ground. This fuels his determination to figure out who is behind three seemingly unrelated cases of violence towards the elderly. When ex-lovers Jensen and Henrik find themselves both investigating the same case, the pair struggle to keep a degree of separation and old feelings resurface.
The storytelling throughout The Girl in the Photo is cool, calm and collected, Amsinck is a master of controlling the narrative pace, making the progress so gradual and subtle that complacency will mean you miss out on key clues. Although the main investigation isn’t connected to the previous novel, I recommend you start with My Name is Jensen, so the characters’ dynamic and any loose threads from the first book are firmly in hand before you begin. That being said, Henrik, Jensen and her tempestuous assistant Gustav are brought to vivid life, they leap off the page and are able to fill in the blanks for anyone reading these books out of order. Jensen's determined curiosity steers us through another twisting scandi-noir thriller, and I’m left with high hopes that we’ll be seeing more from her.
| Primary Genre | Thriller and Suspense |
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