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Three years ago, Saga Bauer received a postcard with a threatening text about a gun with nine white bullets - one of which is waiting for Detective Joona Linna. But time passed and the threat faded. Until now....

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 police are scrambling to find a lead among the scant evidence. But Detective Joona Linna realizes that this murder has an eerie connection to a death that was declared a suicide years before.

WAKE UP TO TRUE EVIL The third gripping thriller in Lars Kepler’s bestselling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. ONE GIRL IS DEAD At a home for troubled girls, a young girl has been brutally murdered during the night. Her body is found arranged in bed...

#1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER A serial killer is spinning a sinister web and Detectives Joona Linna and Saga Bauer are caught dead center. This pulse-pounding descent into the chilling world of The Spider is another shocking thriller in the Killer Instinct series. Three years ago, Detective...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR 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...

An alarm sounds in in the middle of the night for a burglary in progress at a winter-closed campsite in Bredäng, outside Stockholm. The nearest police car answers the call. There is a light in one of the farthest caravans and when the officers open the door they are greeted by a horrific sight. Floors, walls and furniture are completely covered in blood. A man has been killed with an axe and brutally dismembered. On the floor of one of the rooms lies a young man sleeping with a severed arm as a pillow.

It begins with a nursery rhyme. Nineteen minutes later you die.... The sixth gripping thriller in Lars Kepler’s best-selling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. There’s a face at the window. A stranger wearing a mask stands in the shadow of a garden. He’s watching his first victim through the window. He will kill him slowly, make it last - play him a nursery rhyme - make him pay.

‘One of the most exciting Swedish crime novels of recent years…’ Göteborgsposten From the bestselling author of The Hypnotist comes the second high-octane thriller featuring Detective Inspector Joona Linna He is an artist in terror The lifeless body of a young woman is discovered on an...

HE’LL STEAL YOU IN YOUR SLEEP The fourth gripping serial killer thriller in the No.1 bestselling Joona Linna series. Perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo. HE’S SWEDEN’S MOST PROLIFIC SERIAL KILLER. Jurek Walter is serving a life sentence. Kept in solitary confinement, he is still considered...

You thought you were alone. Think again. The groundbreaking fifth thriller in Lars Kepler’s bestselling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. CLOSE THE CURTAINS A film arrives at Stockholm’s National Crime Investigation Department showing a woman in...

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 police are scrambling to find a lead among the scant evidence. But Detective Joona Linna realises that this murder has an eerie connection to a death that was declared a suicide years before.

Jurek Walter was shot and killed years ago. The police moved on and managed to forget the darkness that had tainted their lives. But now someone is leaving a trail of broken bodies across Sweden, and the clues all point to Walter. Detective Joona Linna is convinced his worst nightmare is becoming a reality: the man who tore apart his family has returned to finish the job. When Joona’s partner is taken - and locked inside an underground coffin - he finds himself with an impossible choice: leave her to die, or walk into the trap set by the only man he ever feared.

HE WILL TRAP YOU IN A WORLD OF TERROR The groundbreaking first novel in the bestselling Joona Linna thriller series. A TRAUMATISED WITNESS Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. Detective Inspector Joona Linna is faced with a boy who witnessed the gruesome murder of his family. He’s suffered more...

Une nuit d'hiver, la police reçoit un appel. Un cambriolage est signalé dans un camping désert aux abords de Stockholm. À l'intérieur d'une caravane, ils découvrent l'indicible : un bain de sang, une hache, un corps réduit en morceaux… et, dans la pièce voisine, un adolescent endormi, un bras sectionné en guise d'oreiller. Le garçon s'appelle Hugo Sand. Il a dix-sept ans. Il souffre d'un trouble du sommeil rare – un somnambulisme qui se déclenche au cœur de ses pires cauchemars. Au réveil, il ne se souvient de rien. Coupable ou simple témoin ?

Il caso è estremamente complesso e quanto accaduto quella notte è solo il primo anello di una macabra catena. Soltanto un uomo può riuscire a mettere fine a quest'incubo: Joona Linna. E per calarsi nelle tenebre il commissario, questa volta, avrà bisogno dell'aiuto di un suo vecchio amico, l'ipnotista Erik Maria Bark.

Die ersten beiden Fälle von Joona Linna in einer Hörbuchausgabe! "DER HYPNOTISEUR": Vor den Toren Stockholms wird an einem Sportplatz ein brutal ermordeter Mann entdeckt. Kurz darauf werden seine Frau und Tochter ebenso bestialisch getötet aufgefunden. Offenbar wollte der Täter die gesamte Familie auslöschen. Doch der Sohn überlebt schwer verletzt... "PAGANINIS FLUCH": Stockholm. Zwei Todesfälle geben der Polizei große Rätsel auf. Ein Mann wird erhängt in einem leeren Zimmer gefunden, eine Frau liegt ertrunken auf einem Boot, das nie untergegangen ist.

The third installment of the #1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series, The Fire Witness sees Joona drawn into a gruesome, mysterious murder at a home for wayward girls. Detective Joona Linna is on leave dealing with personal and professional issues when he gets pulled into the...

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The first of the Killer Instinct series featuring Detective Joona Linna: a triple murder, the one surviving witness—a boy with no memory of what happened—and the hypnotist hired to help uncover the truth. “Full of surprises and more than enough twists to...

Si chiama Joona Linna ed è di origini finlandesi, ma da anni ormai Stoccolma è la sua casa. È stato in ogni vicolo, viale e piazza. Ma Joona Linna non è mai stato in quell'appartamento elegante e lussuoso, da cui proviene una musica struggente e rarefatta. Un brano di violino suonato da un esecutore impareggiabile. Joona Linna non è mai stato nel salottino dell'appartamento: è l'unica stanza totalmente spoglia, priva di arredamento, senza soprammobili, insolitamente vuota. A parte il corpo.

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Detectives Joona Linna and Saga Bauer must confront a relentless killer who’s always one step ahead in this installment of the Killer Instinct series from the #1 international bestselling author of The Hypnotist. “Action-oriented, inventive, with over-the-top...