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| Series:
The Joona Linna Series
| Category:
Fiction/Crime
| Publication:
2010 Autumn
| Option publishers:
latvian/apgads mansards
icelandic/forlagid
russian/corpus
israel/modan
greek/patakis
complex chinese/locus publishing
japanese/hayakawa
hungarian/cartaphilus
korean/minumsa
simplified chinese/beijing fonghong media co.
thai/sanskrit book
bulgarian/enthusiast
albanian/dituria
| Rights sold:
Brazilian/Intrinseca
Canadian/McClelland&Stewart
Catalan/Ara Amsterdam
Croatian/Fraktura
Czech/Host
Danish/Gyldendal
Finnish/Tammi
French/Actes Sud
German/Lübbe
Holland/Bezige Bij
Italian/Longanesi
Norwegian/Cappelen Damm
Portuguese/Porto Editora
Romanian/Editura Trei
Spanish/Planeta
UK/Blue Door Harper Collins
US/Sara Crichton FSG
Slovak/Ikar
Turkish/Pegasus
Polish/Czarne
| Agent:
Susanne Widén
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| Lars Kepler (Author) |
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| Swedish title: Paganinikontraktet |
After the massive success with The Hypnotist - in Sweden as well as internationally - Lars Kepler is back in full force!
Pub date was July 15 2010 - already over 90 000 copies sold!!!
On a summer night the dead body of a woman is found on board an abandoned big pleasure boat drifting around in the Stockholm archipelago. Her lungs are filled with brackish water, but there are no traces of this water on her clothes or other parts of her body.
-She drowned, Joona, says the professor of forensic medicine.
-Drowned?
The professor nods and smiles.
-She drowned on board a floating boat, he says.
-Probably someone found her in the sea and pulled her on board the boat.
-If I thought that’s what happened, I wouldn’t be taking up your time, says the professor.
The next day a man is found dead in his state apartment in Stockholm. The man is hanging in a noose from the lamp-hook in the ceiling. How did it happen? The room has a high ceiling, and there is not one single piece of furniture in the room, nothing to climb on. Nevertheless Detective Inspector Joona Linna is convinced that it is suicide.
Of course he is right.
The man has committed suicide, but this fact doesn’t close the case. It is only the prelude to a dizzingly intense and dangerous course of events.
There are certain agreements which cannot be broken off, not even if you are dead…
Reviews:
The relaxed confidence and sharp detail of the prose keep the reader utterly captivated... it is clear that The Paganini Contract is one of the most exciting Swedish crime novels of recent years; it is also a sterling piece of work in terms of literary merit.
It doesn’t get much better than this.
(Göteborgsposten)
What lifts Kepler’s work above the majority of the competition is the language: it is energetic, but at times also melancholy and beautiful... Neither highbrow culture nor popular culture can deliver salvation, therefore, but a crime novel that can create high-calibre excitement and dazzle with expertise on Paganini and Bartók in this way can perhaps offer a sense of temporary reconciliation.
(Svenska Dagbladet)
Once again the authors have succeeded in making themselves stand out in this torrent of Swedish crime novels... The interesting thing when established authors tackle the genre of crime is that they create an entertaining read with literary qualities and living characters... It is very clear that the Ahndorils enjoy writing crime stories; there is not a hint of the dull, routine thinking that is noticeable in so many other Swedish crime novels.
(Helsingborgs Dagblad)
The Paganini in the title refers to the musician who is said to have sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for his virtuosity.
The reader is ready to sell his own soul for the opportunity to read this book without interruption, at one sitting.
(Arbetarbladet)
The Paganini Contract is a cleverly written thriller... “Lars Kepler” has produced a well-crafted piece of work in which Detective Inspector Joona Linna becomes more and more interesting.
(Upsala Nya Tidning)
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