Back in 2020 we awarded THE CHESTNUT MAN by Soren Sveistrup The Barry Award for Best First Mystery of 2019. It was a memorable book for me. It was later made into an excellent Netflix series. Then nothing… no follow-up. I was disappointed because I liked THE CHESTNUT MAN so much. (I’m looking at my signed, limited edition right now.)

I just got notice that a sequel featuring the same detectives, Naia Thulen and Mark Hess, will be published by Harper next July in the U.S. under the name HIDE AND SEEK.

For those fans who can’t wait until July, the British edition from Michael Joseph is coming out March 26, 2026.

Can’t wait to read this one.

Plot Summary

Count to one, count to two…
A strange voice from inside the woods, repeating a child’s counting rhyme.
Count to four, count to five…
A body discovered in the water.
You’re trying to go home. Will you make it alive?
Thirty years later, a woman is haunted by a string of anonymous text messages, repeating that same counting rhyme. Counting down.
Found you.
Detectives Naia Thulin and Mark Hess are charged with finding the missing woman. But when they uncover links to a decades-old cold case, their investigation takes a terrifying turn.
A twisted killer is on the loose. Can they catch them, before they strike again?