In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there’s only one surviving witness—the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes wanted this boy to die: he’s suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and lapsed into a state of shock. Desperate for information, Linna sees only one option: 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 has 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.
An international sensation, The Hypnotist is set to appear in thirty-seven countries, and it has landed at the top of bestseller lists wherever it’s been published—in France, Holland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Denmark. Now it’s America’s turn. Combining the addictive power of the Stieg Larsson trilogy with the storytelling drive of The Silence of the Lambs, this adrenaline-drenched thriller is spellbinding from its very first page.
THIS IS THE DEBUT BOOK BY THE HUSBAND AND WIFE WRITING DUO KNOWN AS LARS KEPLER.
THIS BOOK, AS YOU READ ABOVE, HAS BEEN COMPARED TO LEGENDARY WORKS SUCH AS THE “THE GIRL WHO” TRILOGY BY STEIG LARSSON AND SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. TO ME THIS BOOK IS SO FAR BEYOND THE STIEG LARSSON SERIES THAT THE ONLY THING THE AUTHORS HAVE IN COMMON IS THAT THEY ARE ALL FROM SWEDEN AND WRITE BOOKS IN THE MYSTERY/THRILLER GENRE. THE BOOK AND THE FIRST STORY LINE OF THE TRIPLE HOMICIDE AND THE LONE MALE SURVIVOR WILL REMIND YOU OF THE TWISTEDNESS OF “THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS” AND THE TWISTEDNESS OF THE KILLER/KIDNAPPER.
THE PLOT OF THE STORY TWIST AND TURNS SO MUCH THAT IT KEEPS YOU GUESSING TO WHO THE REAL KILLER/KIDNAPPER WILL BE. THIS BOOK HAS SO MANY STORY LINES THAT ARE INTERWOVEN IN THE LAST FEW CHAPTERS SO BEAUTIFULLY THAT IT AMAZES HOW ONE ACTION DOMINOS AL THE OTHERS TO CREATE THIS ELABORATE TALE OF LOVE, MURDER, AND HYPNOSIS.
IF I HAVE TO COME UP WITH SOME CONS TO THE NOVEL THEY WOULD BE SMALL SUCH AS THE BOOK IS VERY LONG. IT IS OVER 500 PAGES LONG, BUT EACH PAGE IS NEEDED. THERE ARE SO MANY DETAILS TO EVERY ACTION AND SCENE THAT THE DUO COULD HAVE MADE A WHOLE SERIES OFF THIS SINGLE NOVEL. THE SECOND WOULD BE SINCE THERE ARE SO MANY STORY LINES AND THE CHAPTERS CHANGE POINT OF VIEWS THAT THEY CAN BECOME A TAD BIT CONFUSING IN THE BEGINNING. THOSE ARE THE ONLY BAD THINGS I COULD POSSIBLE SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK. I ENJOYES THIS BOOK FROM THE FIRST ATTENTION GRABBING PREFACE PAGE TO THE VERY LAST PAGE THAT I HOPE AND PRAY THIS IS NOT THE LAST WE HEAR FROM THE DUO.
