Book description
He knows your darkest dreams. Then he makes them come true.
Stockholm, Sweden
On a summer's evening a young woman's body is discovered aboard an
abandoned boat. The likely cause of death is drowning, but her clothes
are completely dry.
A man is found hung in his apartment. His death looks like suicide,
although there is nothing to climb on to reach the ceiling.
On the surface the deaths seem unconnected but Detective Inspector Joona
Linna suspects something more sinister. He discovers that the woman is
the sister of Penelope Fernandez, spokesperson for a peace organisation.
The hanging man is Carl Palmcrona, General Director of a Swedish Arms committee.
A killer is at large with more targets suspected. Contracts have been
broken and blood will be shed. The one certainty is that only Joona
Linna can stop…
The Nightmare 'One of the most exciting Swedish crime novels of recent
years…It doesn't get much better than this.'
Göteborgsposten
'Once again the authors have succeeded in making themselves stand out in
this torrent of Swedish crime novels.' Helsingborgs Dagblad
'The reader is ready to sell his own soul for the opportunity to read
this book without interruption, at one sitting.' Arbetarbladet
A selection of reviews of THE HYPNOTIST:
'A pulse-pounding debut that is already a native smash.'
Financial Times
'A creepy and compulsive crime thriller.' Mo Hayder
'Intelligent, original and chilling.'
Simon Beckett
'Far more energetic than Henning Mankell, as socially involved as
Larsson but a better writer, Kepler matches the great Jo Nesbo for
gothic excitement.'
Weekend Australian Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of Alexandra Coelho
Ahndoril & Alexander Ahndoril, both critically-acclaimed writers
under their own names. Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril's first novel
Stjärneborg (Castle of Stars) has been translated in several languages
while Alexander Ahndoril's novel, The Director, about Ingmar Bergman,
was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. They live in
Sweden. The Nightmare is the second in a series featuring Detective
Inspector Joona Linna. The first novel in the series, The Hypnotist, has
sold over half a million copies in Sweden and has been a bestseller
wherever it has been published to date.
