Stalker (The Joona Linna Series) - Softcover

Kepler, Lars

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771043074 ISBN 13: 9780771043079

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 2016

Synopsis

The police receive a video clip of a woman in a window and reason that someone must have been standing in the garden just outside her house to be able to film her. The next day the woman is found dead in her home, the vicious violence of the scene shocks even the most seasoned investigators.
 
A few days later, another clip is sent anonymously to the police, but there's no way of identifying the woman before she too falls victim to a brutal attack. When he
finds her, the woman's husband is so traumatized by the violent scene that, in a state of panic, he starts cleaning the house. He even washes the blood from his
wife's body and puts her to bed, as if nothing is the matter. He may have seen a vital clue but is in such an extreme state of shock, and seems to be suffering from
short-term memory loss that the police cannot usefully question him.
 
Criminal psychiatrist and hypnotist Erik Maria Bark is called in hypnotize the man in order to unlock his memories of the murder scene. But what Dr Bark uncovers in his sessions with the dead woman's husband make him decide to lie to the police.
 
It becomes clear that the case cannot be solved without the help of Detective Joona Linna, the man who's been missing for more than a year and has been presumed dead.

About this title

About the Author:

LARS KEPLER is the pseudonym of Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril & Alexander Ahndoril, both critically acclaimed writers under their own names. Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril's first novel, Stjärneborg (Castle of Stars), has been translated in several languages while Alexander Ahndoril's novel The Director, about Ingmar Bergman, was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Stalker is the fifth book in their series featuring Detective Inspector Joona Linna.

Review:

   · "Stieg Larsson had a good feel for characters, but it's his fellow Swede Kepler... has a direct line to a very dark place in the human soul in The Hypnotist." Lev Grossman, Time 

   · "Kepler...keeps ratcheting up the suspense. Every time you think you have the situation figured out, the nightmare deepens and twists. Kepler's knack for shifting time frames and narrative perspective among the characters in short chapters will have you turning pages long after your bedtime. While Stieg Larsson struggled with creating convincing bad guys,...Kepler establishes a murderer's row of memorable victims...." Ottawa Citizen

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0771043074
• ISBN 13: 9780771043079
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528