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Product Identifiers
PublisherPicador
ISBN-101250007585
ISBN-139781250007582
eBay Product ID (ePID)110850102
Product Key Features
Book TitleHypnotist
Number of Pages528 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicThrillers / Crime, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Crime, Thrillers / General, Noir
GenreFiction
AuthorLars Kepler
Book SeriesDetective Inspector Joona Linna Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight14.6 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsThis is the thriller that's taking Europe by storm. Written by a Swedish husband-and-wife team whose identity was originally a closely guarded secret, it might just be the next Girl with the Dragon Tattoo . . . Ferocious, visceral storytelling that wraps you in a cloak of darkness that almost blots out the light, but still feeds the imagination: stunning., All the hallmarks of a classic . . . Tense, clever and multilayered . . . This is crime writing at its most devilishly involving., The brutal slaying of gambling addict Anders Ek, his wife, and his younger daughter propels this outstanding thriller debut . . . A well-integrated subplot involving a gang of terrifying boys and girls adds to the suspense. Readers will look forward to seeing more of Linna in what one hopes will be a long series., If you don't get carried away by this book, the question is whether you like the crime thriller genre at all., The Hypnotist is--yes--impossible to put down. The Hypnotist is-- yes --ingeniously put together, like a Swiss watch. The Hypnotist is-- Yes! --fabulously entertaining, even gruesomely so. But it is also a serious meditation on evil, human weakness, the infinity of the mind, and the capriciousness of fate. My wife stole it from me before I was finished reading it and tore through it. Then I stole it back, to my great pleasure!, A new star enters the firmament of Scandinavian thrillerdom, joining the likes of Larsson, Nesbø and Mankell., Now ranks second only to Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in terms of worldwide sales for a Swedish author . . . Far more energetic than Henning Mankell, as socially involved as Larsson but a better writer, Kepler matches the great Jo Nesbø for gothic excitement., A worthy addition to the ever-expanding ranks of Scandinavian crime fiction. Expect caffeinated beverages, inclement weather, and severed limbs., Outrageously entertaining . . . Kepler makes you feel that if homicidal maniacs really were to start popping up in Stockholm, this is exactly how it would play out., If the post-Stieg Larsson boom was ebbing, Kepler promises to revitalize the genre by bringing a sulphurous whiff of Hannibal Lecter to this case . . . It's a pulse-pounding debut that is already a native smash., Does the world really need another Swedish thriller? The spellbinding exploits of Detective Inspector Joona Linna and the hypnotist he hires to solve a murder make the answer clear., Soon there will be Stieg Larsson crime fiction people and Lars Kepler crime fiction people. I'm henceforth in the latter camp. The Hypnotist is every bit the equal of the Millennium Trilogy--riveting narrative momentum, fascinatingly grisly forensics, existential Nordic dread. But there's more: superior prose, no cartoony characters, and beneath all the noir, plenty of old-fashioned heart ., 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 skillful, refined, pulsating drive and the writing is sharp, convincing and multilayered., One convincing psychotic is about as much as most thriller writers can handle, but Kepler delivers them by the roomful. It makes you wonder where the Swedes have been keeping him/them all this time. I imagine a cabal of nefarious Stockholm publishers loading bulk orders of Larsson onto cargo planes bound for the U.S. while they rub their hands together over a copy of The Hypnotist stamped Not for Export. It's that good. It's the hard stuff., If The Hypnotist doesn't find its way onto every reader's 'Best Of' list by the end of the year, it will only be because not everyone read it. Don't be one of the unfortunate few. But put on an extra sweater while you are reading; this one will chill you to the bone.
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Series Volume Number1
Dewey Decimal839.738
SynopsisA Time Magazine Top 10 Fiction book for 2011 One of the Wall Street Journal 's Top 10 Mysteries of the Year 2011 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.
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- 31. Jan. 2017
Great Author team!
Wife and I read The Nightmare while on road trip and it was great. We are into this book now and as their first Det Junna Linna story we are enjoying it. If you like Stieg Larson or Jo Nesbo books then this right up your dark alley.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 08. Feb. 2016
Very entertaining !!!
I am an avid reader and I like to read about other cultures and locales. This is interesting, entertaining and well written.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
