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The Hypnotist
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, Detective Inspector Juana Linna sees only one option, hypnotism. He enlists Dr. Erik Maria Bark to mesmerize the boy, hoping to discover the killer through his eyes.
So in starts one of the most exciting and adrenaline-drenched thrillers from literary couple Lars Kepler. Until they were unmasked in the middle of the night by two journalists after a national manhunt, not even Alexander and Alexandra Ahndoril’s three daughters had known they were Lars Kepler.
The Ahndorils created an entire identity for Lars Kepler, who they decided is a shy former teacher obsessed with crime who likes tea and lemon biscuits. Using Alexander’s hypnotist brother as a starting point, they sketched out the narrative and then sat down to tea and biscuits before writing as Kepler.
Soon to be published in thirty-six countries, The Hypnotist, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, promises to be an international hit – with film rights sold to Lasse Hallstrom.
Available here.