Hide and Seek A Novel

By: Soren Sveistrup

Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 2026-07-07

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

The author of The Chestnut Man and creator of the hit television series The Killing returns with a twisty, breakneck psychological thriller that takes an innocent children's game to its most terrifying and diabolical extreme.

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 begins receiving a string of anonymous text messages, repeating that same rhyme.

Found you.

Then she disappears . . .

On Valentine's Day, detectives Naia Thulin and Mark Hess are searching to find the missing woman. But when they uncover links to a decades-old cold case, their investigation takes a terrifying turn.

A violent killer is on the loose. Can Hess and Thulin catch them, before they strike again?