Staff Pick
With international acclaim comes Kepler's latest thriller, Stalker, a horrific and heart-pumping crime novel which follows a terrifying path of murders in Sweden. Prior to each murder, a tape is released to the Swedish National Crime Unit which begins the countdown to the killer's latest victim. Kepler's style is well-researched, describing the psychology behind stalkers in gruesome and uncomfortable detail, and following police procedures with a scrutinous literary magnifying glass. His lightning-quick narrative style will keep you up late into the night, peering over the pages and through the window to be sure you are reading unobserved... Recommended By Alex Y., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
"Lars Kepler ... has] a taste for the macabre and a surefire recipe for the lurid serial-killer thriller. ... This is not a book for anyone on heart medication. Kepler is a virtuoso at delivering scenes of suspense." --Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review The internationally bestselling authors of The Sandman and The Hypnotist return with a terrifying new thriller: Detective Joona Linna--recently returned from compassionate leave--reunites with hypnotist Erik Maria Bark in a search for a seemingly unassailable sadistic killer.
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 received, 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 Detective Joona Linna for help. Linna, in turn, recruits Erik Maria Bark, the hypnotist and expert in trauma, with whom Linna's worked before. Bark is leery of forcing people to give up their secrets. But this time, Bark is the one hiding things.
Years before, he had put a man away for an eerily similar crime, and now he's beginning to think that an innocent man may be behind bars--and a serial killer still on the loose. . .