by Lars Kepler , Mark Bramhall, Ann Long
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''Soon there will be Stieg Larsson crime fiction people and Lars Kepler crime fiction people: I'm hereby in the latter camp. The Hypnotist is every bit the equal of the Millennium trilogy--riveting narrative momentum, fascinatingly grisly forensics, existential Nordic dread. But there's more: superior prose, no cartoony characters, and beneath all the noir plenty of old fashioned heart.'' --Kurt Andersen, New York Times bestselling author ''Lars Kepler enthralls readers with The Hypnotist, just like Stieg Larsson did with the Millennium series.'' --Norrkopings Tidningar (Sweden)''A cracking pace . . . Kepler belongs on every international crime fan's reading list.'' --Booklist ''Stieg Larsson may be gone, but his ghost still haunts both the publishing world and the popular imagination.'' --Library Journal ''Loved, loved, loved The Hypnotist. I am a huge fan of Scandinavian crime fiction, and The Hypnotist far surpasses anything I have read in the genre. . . It's the best thriller I've read in a very long time: smart, compulsive, and never predictable. Comparisons run through my mind--Dennis Lehane, James Lee Burke, Henning Mankell--all their great books with flawed protagonists that bring the storyline closer to the reader. I think we can sell this book to a very wide audience.'' --Sally Brewster, Park Road Books
In this spellbinding international bestseller, a murder leaves only one route to the killer. Tumba, Sweden. A triple homicide--all the victims from the same family--captivates Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the grisly murders--against the wishes of the national police. The killer is at large, and it appears that the elder sister of the family escaped the carnage; it seems only a matter of time until she, too, is murdered. But where can Linna begin? The only surviving witness is the boy whose mother, father, and little sister were killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes intended for this boy to die: he has suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and lapsed into a state of shock. He's in no condition to be questioned. Desperate for information, Linna sees one mode of recourse: hypnotism. He enlists Dr. Erik Maria Bark to mesmerize the boy, hoping to discover the killer through his eyes. It's the sort of work that Bark had sworn he would never do again--ethically dubious and psychically scarring. When he breaks his promise and hypnotizes the victim, a long and terrifying chain of events begins to unfurl. A #1 bestselling international sensation sure to please fans of Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, The Hypnotist is the first novel in a series. With its pulse-pounding hooks and twists, it announces a stirring new contribution to the annals of crime fiction. [Translated from the Swedish by Ann Long]
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