About The Hypnotist
Prepare for The Hypnotist to cast its spell
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.
Detail
Complete Title: The Hypnotist (Joona Linna, #1)
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 503
Publication Time: June 21, 2011
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN: 0374173958
ISBN13: 9780374173951
About Lars Kepler
Lars Kepler
Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of critically acclaimed husband and wife team Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, authors of the No. 1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series. With seven installments to date, the series has sold 13 million copies in 40 languages. The Ahndorils were both established writers before they adopted the pen name Lars Kepler, and have each published several acclaimed novels.
Reviews The Hypnotist
(B+) 76% | GoodNotes: Spends a lot of time building up elaborate red herrings; successor developments being progressively less compelling…
Jayson
I wish someone would hypnotize me and erase the memory of reading this book.OK, it isn’t that bad from a writing standpoint and basic premise, but it had a lot of buzz that I didn’t think it came…
Kemper
”They’d thought he was dead when they found him among the other bodies in the terraced house. He’d lost a great deal of blood, gone into a state of shock, and hadn’t regained consciousness unt…
Jeffrey Keeten
I suppose I should say this is a spoiler alert. Read on at your own risk. I continue to be amazed by people’s reviews. Many ( most) always begin by giving a summation of the plot. This is stupid and t…
Joe
I really liked this novel, and would have given it four stars if not for three things that irked me about the way it was written.1) The authors (this was written by a married couple) use the present t…
Eric
Do you like your thrillers dark? I mean really dark? Here you go…Detective Inspector Joona Linna is investigating the brutal murder of nearly an entire family in Sweden. The only survivor of the att…
Kaceey
This is a very dark, horrific story that ranks high in creepiness. Seriously it left me feeling like I needed to take a shower and wash the creep away. The cover would have you beleive that it is comp…
Arah-Lynda
In this debut novel, Lars Kepler lays out the groundwork for a stunning and highly intense thriller. A boy is found clinging to life at home with his family slaughtered all around him. Detective Joona…
Matt
I read it so you don’t have to. You are welcome. This book is laughably and infuriatingly terrible. I only finished it because I paid for it, dammit, and wanted to see how terrible it would actually g…