THE CANNIBAL: FROM THE LIONS DEN

KANNIBALEN – THE CANNIBAL: FROM THE LIONS DEN

By Alexandra-Therese Keining

RUMOURS HAVE ALWAYS  circled around the isolated patient in ward 57 of S:t Clemens high-security psychiatric clinic. It is said that he committed a terrible murder of his girlfriend in the 1970’s but it is hard to imagine from his appearance and humble behaviour. Even so, many eye brows are raised when Carl Bengtson is considered to be well enough to be released from care after 40 years.  

DETECTIVE INSPECTOR MIRIAM Alba gets a case on her desk with links to S:t Clemens. She can’t shake the feeling that there is more to it than her colleagues think and despite her boss saying no, she can’t help but dig deeper. 

BRUNO HAS SEARCHED for validation and belonging his whole life. With Malik and his crew he thinks he has found it. That’s why he says nothing of the others involvement  when he is charged and sentenced to community service. He is given the job of escorting Carl Bengtson. Who is the old man and what was he guilty of over 40 years ago? Can he really be free of the violent urges that were once so strong? 

IS THE DISAPPEARANCE of a seven year old girl close to Carl Bengtson’s apartment a coincidence or the start of something unimaginably dark?

THE CANNIBAL: FROM THE LIONS DEN is a crime novel that will give you nightmares, but that is completely impossible to put down. A terrifying page-turner that examines the darkest corners of the human mind, in the vein of Silence of the Lambs and Seven.