Søren Sveistrup is back with a follow-up to his internationally acclaimed debut crime novel, The Chestnut Man, featuring the Danish Europol investigator Mark Hess and Naia Thulin, who has transferred to NC3, the Danish National Center for cybercrime. In the new novel, Count to One, Count to Two, a gruesome murder has been committed and the case connects to the unsolved killing of a 19-year-old schoolgirl.

With only a phone as a weapon a killer manipulates and humiliates his victims and lead them into a web of despair and coldblooded control. Mark Hess and Naia Thulin are forced to use all means to understand a crime based on a perverted game of hide and seek
which began 30 years earlier when a joyful children’s field day in school turned into a nightmare.

A race against time begins, and Hess and Thulin are under immense pressure to connect the past and the present before the game of hide and seek leaves new victims.