The Hermit

Resumen del libro

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, and there is no trace of a driver.

The last thing an ailing tourist resort needs is a murder, and 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 and children have left him alienated and 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 - and 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? And what if the killer forces Erhard to confront his own long-buried past? Winner of the prestigious Glass Key Award and an instant bestseller in Denmark, The Hermit is taking the international publishing world by storm. Acutely observed and psychologically penetrating, this is existential noir at its finest.

Biografía del autor

Nacido 1974 en Aarhus, Dinamarca, a los 17 años ganó un importante concurso de relatos con Forever Young (1992). Estudió Psicología y Filosofía, además de cursos de coach y para entrar al cuerpo de bomberos. Se graduó en la escuela danesa de Escritura. El ermitaño es su primera novela, con la que ya ha cosechado en Dinamarca un importante éxito de público y crítica, que le ha otorgado el premio a la Mejor Primera Novela y el Premio Harald Mogensen a la Mejor Novela Negra del Año, además de haber sido seleccionado al Glass Key, el prestigioso Premio a la Mejor Novela Negra de Escandinavia. Vive en el norte de Copenhague con su mujer y dos hijos, cuatro gatos, un perro y un hámster.