FICTION · POLICE
Lars Kepler
Also known as: Lars Kepler (author), Kepler Lars
Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of husband and wife team Alexander Ahndoril (born 1967) and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril (born 1966), authors of the Joona Linna series. With nine installments to date, the series has sold 15 million copies in 40 languages. The Ahndorils were both established writers before they adopted the pen name Lars Kepler, and have each published several acclaimed novels. The Joona Linna series follows Joona Linna, Detective Superintendent at the police's National Operations Department, Saga Bauer, an Operational Superintendent at the Swedish Security Service, and Erik Maria Bark (in The Hypnotist and Stalker), a trained psychiatrist and psychotherapist specialised in psycho-traumatology and disaster psychiatry. In autumn 2015, Lars Kepler's sixth novel was published in Sweden, a stand-alone novel entitled Playground.
Most acclaimed
Incurables
Roman policier (énigme) Une jeune adolescente est retrouvée sauvagement assassinée dans la cellule d'isolement d'un foyer spécialisé. Un marteau ensanglanté est retrouvé sous l'oreiller de l'une des autres occupantes, une jeune fille troublée du nom de Nicky qui a disparu. C'est le début d'une terrible chasse à l'homme qui va mettre à mal les intuitions de l'inspecteur Joona Linna.
The Hypnotist
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.