The Hypnotist
Books | Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
3.9
(328)
Lars Kepler
A Time Magazine Top 10 Fiction book for 2011One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Mysteries of the Year 2011Prepare for The Hypnotist to cast its spellIn 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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Author
Lars Kepler
Pages
512
Publisher
Macmillan
Published Date
2011-06-21
ISBN
1429949651 9781429949651
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"My absolute favorite book of all time, it’s intriguing, mysterious, and keeps you wanting more from the start. The plot thats described on the back cover is what I expected to be reading about, but that’s solved within the first 50 or so pages, but what comes out of that is the best part. Very much like criminal minds in the sense that there is a lot of looking at evidence and police investigation, along with hypnotism, rich characters, and backstory. I never knew what was gonna happen next, and loved every minute of it."
"I’m still working my way through them. Enjoying them all. "
R H
Richard Harrison
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