Lars Kepler

Eine Schülerin verschwindet auf dem Heimweg spurlos. Jahre später wird sie auf einem Spielplatz mitten in Stockholm ermordet aufgefunden. Das Mädchen hängt an einem Klettergerüst. Wer tut so etwas? Kommissar Joona Linna ist von der Kaltblütigkeit des Täters alarmiert. Ein ungewöhnlicher Mord, eine Hinrichtung. Eine Machtdemonstration. Das Mädchen ist wahrscheinlich nicht das einzige Opfer. Als es gelingt, einen Mann aufzuspüren, der den...

"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....

When a medium contacts the police department with claims about a murder at a rural home for wayward girls, detective Joona Linna investigates bizarre clues only to find himself confronting more violent truths and a figure from his past.

"In the latest installment of the Killer Instinct series, 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 Swedish National Crime Unit receives a video of a young woman in her home, clearly unaware that she's being watched. Soon after the tape is recieved, the woman's body is found horrifically mutilated. With the arrival of the next, similar video, the police understand that the killer is toying with them, warning of a new victim, knowing there's nothing they can do. Detective Margot Silverman is put in charge of the investigation, and soon asks...

"The latest installment in the internationally best-selling Joona Linna series sees the Swedish detective on the trail of the worst serial killer he's seen yet. Across the continent, someone is brutally murdering Europe's worst criminals. Who can object to taking out rapists, arsonists, human traffickers? But when two of the victims have a direct connection to detective Joona Linna, it's clear to him that somebody's trying to send him a message. His...

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...

IF YOU SEE HIS REFLECTION IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE . . . The gripping new crime novel from global thriller writing phenomenon, Lars Kepler. 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...

Knapp nur hat Kommissarin Saga Bauer den letzten Einsatz überlebt. Bevor sie endlich die Reha-Klinik verlassen kann, erreicht sie noch eine handgeschriebene Postkarte: "Eine blutrote Pistole liegt vor mir. In deren Magazin befinden sich neun weiße Kugeln. Eine dieser Kugeln ist für Joona Linna bestimmt. Die einzige Person, die ihn retten kann, bist du." Unterschrieben ist die Karte mit einem Anagramm vom Serienmörder Jurek Walter. Als Saga von...