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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 the police are scrambling to find a lead among the scant evidence. But Detective Joona Linna realises that this murder has an eerie connection to a death that was declared a suicide years before.

The number-one Swedish thriller by the author of The Hypnotist and The Fire Witness. He's Sweden's most prolific serial killer. Jurek Walter is serving a life sentence. Kept in solitary confinement, he is still considered extremely dangerous by psychiatric staff. He'll lull you into a sense of calm. Mikael knows him as The Sandman. Seven years ago, he was taken from his bed along with his sister. They are both presumed dead. He has one target left.

The chilling phenomenon begins again. On a summer night the dead body of a woman is found on board an abandoned 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. Detective Inspector Joona Linna takes up the case. Forensics state that it was a simple drowning, that she must have been pulled aboard the boat which explains the lack of brackish water.

The much-anticipated fifth thriller in Lars Kepler's best-selling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. A video clip is sent to the National Criminal Investigation Department. Someone has secretly filmed a woman through her window from the garden. The next day she is found dead after a frenzied knife attack. The police receive a second film of another unknown woman. There is no way of identifying her before time runs out.

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 the police are scrambling to find a lead among the scant evidence. But Detective Joona Linna realizes that this murder has an eerie connection to a death that was declared a suicide years before.

Flora has seen it all, but nobody believes her. The girl is dead, someone killed her. She was only 14 years old, named Miranda, and was found in her room at the institution for young women in distress, north of Stockholm. The walls were splashed with blood, the sheets were soaked with it. None of the other girls know what happened, but one of them has fled into the night. What Flora does not know is that it is the redoubtable Joona Linna who will be investigating the worst and most puzzling crime of his career.

Jurek Walter was shot and killed years ago. The police moved on and managed to forget the darkness that had tainted their lives. But now someone is leaving a trail of broken bodies across Sweden, and the clues all point to Walter. Detective Joona Linna is convinced his worst nightmare is becoming a reality: the man who tore apart his family has returned to finish the job. When Joona’s partner is taken - and locked inside an underground coffin - he finds himself with an impossible choice: leave her to die, or walk into the trap set by the only man he ever feared.

Three years ago, Saga Bauer received a postcard with a threatening text about a gun with nine white bullets - one of which is waiting for Detective Joona Linna. But time passed and the threat faded. Until now....

You need clues. You need time. You need a motive. You won’t have any of them.When a whole family is murdered in Stockholm, Detective Inspector Joona Linna knows there is only one person who can help find the perpetrator. Erik Maria Bark, retired hypnotist, is called in to work with Josef Ek, a fifteen-year-old boy who witnessed the brutal murder of his family.Following a series of accusations by his patients, Erik is reluctant to return to his craft but makes an exception for Joseph Ek

It begins with a nursery rhyme. Nineteen minutes later you die.... The sixth gripping thriller in Lars Kepler’s best-selling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. There’s a face at the window. A stranger wearing a mask stands in the shadow of a garden. He’s watching his first victim through the window. He will kill him slowly, make it last - play him a nursery rhyme - make him pay.

’Hypnotisøren’ er den første roman i en planlagt serie på i hvert fald otte om den finlandssvenske politimand Joona Linna. I Hypnotisören er det dog lægen, som bliver tilkaldt, da det meste af en familie bliver udslettet, der er historiens omdrejningspunkt. Kun en stor teenagedreng overlever, men han ligger i koma. For at finde ud af hvem morderen er,må man få lægen til at bryde sit ti år gamle løfte om, at han aldrig, aldrig nogensinde ville hypnotisere nogen igen.

Dans ce nouvel opus, l’inspecteur Joona Linna doit faire face à un tueur en série au mode opératoire terrifiant : une figurine en étain est envoyée à l’enquêtrice Saga Bauer avant chaque disparition et enveloppée dans des indices permettant de déterminer le lieu du crime. Neuf victimes sont annoncées, chacune faisant partie de l'entourage de Saga. Cette dernière et Joona vont devoir décrypter les énigmes dans une course contre la montre effrénée et tenter de démêler la toile machiavélique et ingénieusement tissée dans laquelle ils semblent tous deux emprisonnés. D’autant que Joona est la neuvième cible.

Hypnotisøren er tilbage! I Spejlmanden, der er ottende bog i Lars Keplers serie om Joona Linna, forsvinder er ung pige ved højlys dag. I jagten på den uhyggelige bortfører opsøger Joona Linna sin gamle bekendt, hypnotisøren Erik Maria Bark, for at få tilgang til afgørende informationer. Opklaringen af sagen bliver en dybt fascinerende - og skræmmende - nedstigning i det menneskelige sind. Enegængeren Joona Linnas lynende intelligente efterforskning fører ind i det mest uhyggelige psykologiske mørke.

Lorsque le ministre des Affaires étrangères suédois est sauvagement assassiné en plein ébat sadique avec une prostituée, les autorités redoutent un acte terroriste. Les premiers indices convergent en direction d'un homme incarcéré qui aurait des liens avec un réseau d'extrémistes. La police décide alors de faire appel à l'inspecteur Joona Linna qui purge une peine de quatre ans dans une prison de haute sécurité. La couverture est idéale, il pourra approcher le condamné pour lui soutirer des informations. Mais le temps presse, le meurtrier n'en est qu'à ses débuts.

Thrillermesteren Lars Kepler er tilbage med det syvende bind i serien om kriminalkommissær Joona Linna. En død mand bliver fundet i en lejlighed i Oslo. Da politiet åbner køkkenets fryser, gør de et gruopvækkende fund. Ofret viser sig at være en hidtil ukendt gravskænder og trofæsamler. Nogle dage senere kontakter en tysk kommissær Joona Linna og beder om hjælp til en mordsag på en campingplads uden for Rostock. Joona forstår, at mønstret, som viser sig, er sindssygt og samtidig umuligt at ignorere. Nogle vil kalde det et mirakel, at man genopstår fra de døde - andre vil kalde det et mareridt.

Dans une maison de la banlieue de Stockholm, une famille est sauvagement assassinée. Seul Josef, un adolescent, survit au massacre, mais il navigue entre la vie et la mort, en état de choc.

Die ersten beiden Fälle von Joona Linna in einer Hörbuchausgabe! "DER HYPNOTISEUR": Vor den Toren Stockholms wird an einem Sportplatz ein brutal ermordeter Mann entdeckt. Kurz darauf werden seine Frau und Tochter ebenso bestialisch getötet aufgefunden. Offenbar wollte der Täter die gesamte Familie auslöschen. Doch der Sohn überlebt schwer verletzt... "PAGANINIS FLUCH": Stockholm. Zwei Todesfälle geben der Polizei große Rätsel auf. Ein Mann wird erhängt in einem leeren Zimmer gefunden, eine Frau liegt ertrunken auf einem Boot, das nie untergegangen ist.

Carl Palmcrona wird tot in seiner Stockholmer Wohnung aufgefunden. Das Zimmer, in dem er an einem Strick hängt, ist unmöbliert...

"Sentirai solo la mia voce e il conto alla rovescia. Tutto è tranquillo e immobile e non c'è motivo di aver paura." Si chiama Erik Maria Bark ed era l'ipnotista più famoso di Svezia. Poi qualcosa è andato terribilmente storto e la sua vita è stata a un passo dal crollo. Ha promesso pubblicamente di non praticare mai più l'ipnosi e per dieci anni ha mantenuto quella promessa. Fino a oggi.

Dans la nuit glacée de Stockholm, un jeune homme, hébété, erre le long de la voie ferrée, tenant des propos incohérents sur "le Marchand de sable". C'est un garçon disparu treize ans plus tôt avec sa jeune sœur. On les tenait pour les dernières victimes d'un tueur en série, Jurek Walter, arrêté par Joona Linna, enfermé depuis dix ans dans un bunker psychiatrique sous haute sécurité. D'où sort ce fantôme du passé ? Qu'est devenue sa jeune sœur ?