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| Series:
The Joona Linna Series
| Category:
Fiction/Crime
| Publication:
2009 Autumn
| Rights sold:
UK&Commonwealth/Blue Door HC
German/Lübbe
Portuguese Brazil/Intrinseca
French/Actes Sud
Spanish/Planeta
Italian/Mauri Spagnol
Latvian/Apgads Mansards
Dutch/De Bezige Bij
Danish/Gyldendal
Norwegian/CappelenDamm
Icelandic/Forlagid
Polish/Czarne
Romanian/Editura Trei
Catalan/Ara Amsterdam
US/ Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Finnish/Tammi
Russian/Corpus
Israel/Modan
Greek/Patakis
Complex Chinese/Locus Publishing
Canadian/McClelland&Stewart
Portuguese Portugal/Porto Editora
Czech Republic/Host
Japan/Hayakawa
Hungary/Cartaphilus
Slovak Republic/Ikar
Croatian/Fraktura
Korean/Minumsa
Turkish/Pegasus
Simplified Chinese/Beijing Fonghong Media Co.
Thai/Sanskrit Book
Bulgarian/Enthusiast
Albanian/Dituria
| Agent:
Susanne Widén
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| Lars Kepler (Author) |
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| Swedish title: Hypnotisören |
In the middle of a dark December night, psychiatrist Erik Maria Bark is woken by a telephone call from a hospital in Stockholm. Detective Inspector Joona Linna asks for his immediate help in treating an unconscious patient suffering from acute trauma. He hopes that Erik will be able to communicate with the young boy through hypnosis, enabling the police to question him. They hope to find out who so brutally murdered his parents and younger sister, in order to track down and save his older sister before it is too late.
But it has been ten years since Erik last practised hypnosis, and he has promised never to do it again. Painful memories from that time make their presence felt, contributing to his decision not to help the police.
When Erik finally allows himself to be persuaded, it is as if the floodgates have been opened to a torrent of unforeseen happenings. Without warning this violent and inexplicable course of events impacts with full force on Erik’s life. His son disappears, and to have a chance of saving his life, Erik has to confront himself with the past, with the times when his research-work was laid in ruins and his marriage seemed on the verge of collapsing.
”Lars Kepler enthralls readers with The Hypnotist, just like Stieg Larsson did with the Millennium-series… I just sit there, spellbound, while racking my brains trying to figure out who Lars Kepler is. The man who, with his magic wand, has created one of the best crime novels I have ever sacrificed a good night’s sleep for.”
(Norrköpings Tidningar)
” Probably the most important crime novel in a long time. In a very long time.”
(Eldorado, Sveriges Radio)
“…there is a skilful storyteller at work.”
(Dagens Nyheter)
“The Hypnotist is a rare beast: A Swedish thriller on a high international level with a smart, effective and surprising plot. The narrative has a skilful, refined, pulsating drive and the writing is sharp, convincing and multilayered.”
(Kristianstadsbladet)
“Kepler is very good at describing how small mistakes can lead to huge catastrophes… Like the women in the book, I too have fallen in love with the Finnish detective inspector Joona Linna.”
(Amelia)
“A carefully woven web of suspense, a sharp dialogue and a very inventive way indeed of dealing with how a tormented brain works – add some Swedish ice to this mixture and what you get is Lars Kepler’s creation.”
(Swedish Radio)
“The book’s structure is tremendously skilful. The suspense and the uneasiness only increase, while I chew my nails shorter and shorter.”
(Aftonbladet)
“There are no pauses in The Hypnotist. The book races along at the highest speed.”
(Tidningen Kulturen)
“Lars Kepler has written a fine crime novel, a breathtaking thriller, which uncovers the many unpleasant sides of the human psyche. He opens the door to a human abyss. And he does it in an irresistible way.”
(Borås tidning)
“A modern hybrid of thriller, crime and terror. This is Lars Norén, Lars von Trier and a handful of fanatical Swedish feminists all rolled into one. To say the least.”
(Berlingske Tidende, Denmark)
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