Hypnotist

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The No 1 Scandinavian crime bestseller. Tumba Sweden Tumba Sweden A triple murder all the same family. The killer is at large & it looks as if the elder sister escaped the carnage. But she is missing & it seems only a matter of time until she too is murdered. Detective Inspector Joona Linna demands to investigate the grisly aftermath -- against the wishes of the national police. Where can Linna begin? The only surviving witness is the boy Josef whose mother father & little sister were killed before his eyes & hes in shutdown comatose with shock. Obsessed & desperate Linna turns to disgraced specialist Erik Maria Bark! The Hypnotist. See Judys Review See Richards Review See Lars Kepler talk about their book Download A Sample Chapter Of The Hypnotist Read an exclusive Q&A with Lars Kepler Write a Review for The Hypnotist Judys Review Wow. This is new-generation Scandinavian crime fiction at its hottest. Its microwave-hottest. When Stieg Larsson smashed his way into our consciousness with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo we could hardly have known that an army of Nordic novelists was at his heels. The Snowman by Jo Nesbo was one of the first through the breach. Lars Kepler is right behind him & maybe drawing level in the charge. The Hypnotist is a fabulously-crafted story from Sweden. A family is wiped out by a serial killer; all but an elder daughter who is ominously missing. The police stunned at the brutality of a triple murder race to find & protect her. There is a witness to the killings &8211; teenage Josef who saw his mother & baby sister killed in front of him at their home. His father has already been butchered in a nearby sports hall. At first the police think Josef has been murdered too but crime scene investigators find faint signs of life in the stabbed boy. He is rushed to intensive care where it quickly becomes apparent that if he survives he may be the only person to help to find & protect his missing older sister. But Josef is comatose. How can he possibly assist the investigation? Step forward disgraced specialist Eric Maria Bark who has publicly disavowed clinical hypnotism after a tragedy linked to his practice years before. But now it seems he has no choice but to hypnotise Josef in order to find the boy&8217;s endangered sister. Reluctantly Bark agrees. It is a fateful decision. Richards Review The Hypnotist is crime fiction of the highest order. Intricately plotted; forensi"