The Chestnut Man (Book Review): Netflix makes me Read It

Sometimes life just doesn’t work out the way you’d hoped

I have heard many good reviews about this story and it has been on my to-be-read list for a long time. Until the series on Netflix has come out and I was hoping to watch the series as there is a lot of positive feedback about it. However, I have the preference in finishing the book before watching the series, therefore I immediately pull out this book from the to be read pile.

After a year since the day that daughter had gone missing and was considered dead, the minister of childcare Rosa Haltung returned to work. When she tried to focus on her work and forgot the catastrophe in her life. A woman found dead in her garage, with her hand was amputated and placed next to the dead body. In addition to that, a chestnut man doll was beside the body.

Thulin and Hess are the officers responsible to investigate the case. Out of their expectation, the fingerprints found on the chestnut man doll belongs to Rosa’s daughter. It is something impossible to happen as her daughter had not been making a chestnut man doll before going missing and the Swedish police had already arrested the murderer of Rosa’s daughter, so technically the case is closed.