Lars Kepler

"Late one night, outside Stockholm, an emaciated young man named Mikael is found wandering. Thirteen years earlier, he went missing along with his younger sister. They were long thought to have been victims of Sweden's most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, currently serving a life sentence in a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. Now Mikael tells the police that his sister is still alive and being held by someone he knows only as the Sandman....

"In the latest installment of the Killer Instinct series, seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is unpredictable, and as wily as he is cruel: he foils every one of their desperate attempts to escape... and once caught they rarely survive their punishment. Five years later, Jenny is found dead in a public park, and...

Detective Joona Linna is finishing out a sentence at Kumla prison for assaulting an officer in the course of his last investigation when he is summoned to a meeting with the Swedish prime minister. The foreign minister has been brutally murdered. There's a chance more political figures could be targeted. The police need Linna to find the killer and neutralize the threat, so he's granted a temporary release from prison. But when another murder occurs,...

Joona Linna ermittelt in seinem 6. Fall Stockholm. In einem wohlhabenden Viertel geschieht ein bestialischer Mord. Die Polizei ist gleich vor Ort, hält den Fall jedoch geheim. Sie kontaktiert Joona Linna, der momentan seine Gefängnisstrafe absitzt. Bei einem geheimen Treffen bittet man ihn, die Mörderjagd aus dem Gefängnis heraus zu leiten. Als er merkt, dass man ihm Fakten vorenthält, ist es bereits zu spät. Er ist schon zu sehr in den Fall...

"Three years ago, Detective Saga Bauer received an ominous postcard describing a gun and nine white bullets--one of which was intended for her partner, Detective Joona Linna. The sender alleged that Saga was the only person who could save him. But as time passed, the threat faded. Until now. A sack with a decomposing body has been found hanging from a tree in the forest. A milky white bullet casing turns up at the scene. When the body count begins...

Knapp nur hat Kommissarin Saga Bauer den letzten Einsatz überlebt. Bevor sie endlich die Reha-Klinik verlassen kann, erreicht sie noch eine handgeschriebene Postkarte: "Eine blutrote Pistole liegt vor mir. In deren Magazin befinden sich neun weiße Kugeln. Eine dieser Kugeln ist für Joona Linna bestimmt. Die einzige Person, die ihn retten kann, bist du." Unterschrieben ist die Karte mit einem Anagramm vom Serienmörder Jurek Walter. Als Saga von...

Keiner kann sich vor dem Sandmann verstecken. Schlaf besser nicht ein. Der Albtraum hat schon begonnen - Jurek Walter sitzt seit Jahren in Isolationshaft. Dem Serienmörder wird zugetraut, auch hinter Gittern noch schreckliches Unheil anzurichten. Als eines seiner letzten Opfer plötzlich lebendig wieder auftaucht, steht für Kommissar Joona Linna fest, dass der Mörder einen Komplizen haben muss. Der Fall wird neu aufgerollt und ein Wettlauf gegen...

On a summer night, police recover the body of a young woman from a pleasure boat drifting around the Stockholm archipelago. The forensics team is sure she drowned. But the boat was afloat, with no trace of water on her body. The next day a man turns up dead in his apartment, hanging from a high lamp hook, with nothing near him to climb on. Joona Linna begins to piece together the two mysteries, but the logistics are a mere prelude to danger.

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...

In this sequel to The hypnotist, Detective Joona Linna returns to investigate a series of interlinking murders surrounding a suspicious Swedish arms deal.