A novel by the “Masters of Horror” award winner plunges the reader into the atmosphere of Baltic noir and introduces the darkest corners of the soul of a elusive killer appearing in Tallinn. Police unsuccessfully try to catch Absorbent, who has been terrorizing the entire Estonian capital, while the writer Otto Wernell has enough nerve to take on a joint book with a maniac and attempt to understand him. But what will be the price of the future bestseller? And most importantly—who is he now: a co-author, an accomplice, or the next victim?
“Co-authorship” is a story about the darkness inside a person and their inability to resist it—about denial, self-defense, and helplessness. And about the fact that looking into the depths of one’s own soul can sometimes be more frightening than writing a thriller together with a serial killer.