Lars Kepler

"Late one night, outside Stockholm, an emaciated young man named Mikael is found wandering. Thirteen years earlier, he went missing along with his younger sister. They were long thought to have been victims of Sweden's most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, currently serving a life sentence in a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. Now Mikael tells the police that his sister is still alive and being held by someone he knows only as the Sandman....

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...

"Ten little rabbits, all dressed in white tried to get to heaven on the end of a kite. Kite string got broken, down they all fell, Instead of going to heaven, they all went to ... It begins with a nursery rhyme. Nineteen minutes later you die. A masked stranger stands in the shadows. He watches his victim through the window. He will kill him slowly -- make him pay. Soon the Rabbit Hunter has claimed another three victims. This predator will stop at...

Der Serienmörder folgt einem perfiden Muster: Er sucht nach Frauen, die alleine leben. Er filmt sie abends durch das erleuchtete Fenster und stellt den voyeuristischen Clip auf YouTube. Und dann ermordet er die Frauen. Die Kriminalpolizei versucht alles, um einen nächsten Mord zu verhindern. Aber der Mörder ist ihnen immer einen Schritt voraus. Beim vierten Mordopfer ist das Muster jedoch durchbrochen: Die Ermittler finden am Tatort einen bewusstlosen...