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Dans une maison de la banlieue de Stockholm, une famille est sauvagement assassinée. Seul Josef, un adolescent, survit au massacre, mais il navigue entre la vie et la mort, en état de choc.

Dans la nuit glacée de Stockholm, un jeune homme, hébété, erre le long de la voie ferrée, tenant des propos incohérents sur "le Marchand de sable". C'est un garçon disparu treize ans plus tôt avec sa jeune sœur. On les tenait pour les dernières victimes d'un tueur en série, Jurek Walter, arrêté par Joona Linna, enfermé depuis dix ans dans un bunker psychiatrique sous haute sécurité. D'où sort ce fantôme du passé ? Qu'est devenue sa jeune sœur ?

Sixteen-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.

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.

Three years ago, Detective Saga Bauer received an ominous postcard describing a gun and nine white bullets—one of which was intended for her partner, Detective Joona Linna. The sender alleged that Saga was the only person who could save him. But as time passed, the threat faded. Until now.

Une jeune femme retrouvée morte à bord d'un bateau dérivant dans l'archipel de Stockholm. La sœur de la victime, militante pacifiste, poursuivie par un tueur implacable. Un corps découvert pendu, celui de Carl Palmcrona, chargé de valider les contrats d'armement de la Suède.

Police discover the lifeless body of a young woman on an abandoned yacht. The next day, a man is found hanging in his apartment. When Detectives Joona Linna and Saga Bauer uncover a surprising connection between the two deaths, they realize they are up against a brutal killer and a ruthless business tycoon who preys on his victims’ worst nightmares to achieve his sinister ends.

Lorsque le ministre des Affaires étrangères suédois est sauvagement assassiné en plein ébat sadique avec une prostituée, les autorités redoutent un acte terroriste. Les premiers indices convergent en direction d'un homme incarcéré qui aurait des liens avec un réseau d'extrémistes. La police décide alors de faire appel à l'inspecteur Joona Linna qui purge une peine de quatre ans dans une prison de haute sécurité. La couverture est idéale, il pourra approcher le condamné pour lui soutirer des informations. Mais le temps presse, le meurtrier n'en est qu'à ses débuts.

Dans ce nouvel opus, l’inspecteur Joona Linna doit faire face à un tueur en série au mode opératoire terrifiant : une figurine en étain est envoyée à l’enquêtrice Saga Bauer avant chaque disparition et enveloppée dans des indices permettant de déterminer le lieu du crime. Neuf victimes sont annoncées, chacune faisant partie de l'entourage de Saga. Cette dernière et Joona vont devoir décrypter les énigmes dans une course contre la montre effrénée et tenter de démêler la toile machiavélique et ingénieusement tissée dans laquelle ils semblent tous deux emprisonnés. D’autant que Joona est la neuvième cible.

The police are desperate for information on the triple homicide. Detective Joona Linna enlists the help of hypnotist Erik Maria Bark. But when Bark unlocks the secrets in the boy’s memory, he triggers a terrifying chain of events that will put all their lives in jeopardy.

Late one night, outside Stockholm, Mikael Kohler-Frost 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, now 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.

All across Europe, the most ruthless criminals are suffering gruesome deaths. At first, it seems coincidental that their underworld affiliations are finally catching up to them. But when two of the victims are found to have disturbing connections to Detective Joona Linna, it becomes clear that there’s a single killer at work. Still, police are reluctant to launch an investigation. If a mysterious vigilante is making their jobs easier, why stand in his way?

Detective Joona Linna is on leave dealing with personal and professional issues when he gets pulled into the investigation of a horrific murder at a home for wayward teenage girls. One girl is dead, and another is missing. The local police want to close the case quickly, especially after they discover a bloody hammer under the missing girl's bed. But a woman claiming to see visions of the murdered girl insists there is more going on than meets the eye, and Joona is inclined to believe her. As he digs deeper into the case, he finds himself in dark and dangerous territory.

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. There's only one person the police can turn to - ex-Detective Joona Linna - but he's serving time in a high-security prison. So they offer him a chance to secure his freedom: help Superintendent Saga Bauer track down the vicious killer known as the Rabbit Hunter, before he strikes again. Soon, another three victims have been murdered, and Stockholm is in the grip of terror.

Sixteen-year-old Jenny Lind is kidnapped in broad daylight on her way home from school and thrown into the back of a truck. She’s taken to a dilapidated house, where she and other girls face horrors far beyond their worst nightmares. Though they’re desperate to escape, their captor foils everyone of their attempts. Five years later, Jenny’s body is found hanging in a playground, strung up with a winch on a rainy night.

Thrillermesteren Lars Kepler er tilbage med det syvende bind i serien om kriminalkommissær Joona Linna. En død mand bliver fundet i en lejlighed i Oslo. Da politiet åbner køkkenets fryser, gør de et gruopvækkende fund. Ofret viser sig at være en hidtil ukendt gravskænder og trofæsamler. Nogle dage senere kontakter en tysk kommissær Joona Linna og beder om hjælp til en mordsag på en campingplads uden for Rostock. Joona forstår, at mønstret, som viser sig, er sindssygt og samtidig umuligt at ignorere. Nogle vil kalde det et mirakel, at man genopstår fra de døde - andre vil kalde det et mareridt.

"Sentirai solo la mia voce e il conto alla rovescia. Tutto è tranquillo e immobile e non c'è motivo di aver paura." Si chiama Erik Maria Bark ed era l'ipnotista più famoso di Svezia. Poi qualcosa è andato terribilmente storto e la sua vita è stata a un passo dal crollo. Ha promesso pubblicamente di non praticare mai più l'ipnosi e per dieci anni ha mantenuto quella promessa. Fino a oggi.

Nel cuore di una notte d'inverno in cui la neve ricopre interamente Stoccolma, un ragazzo cammina lungo i binari di un ponte ferroviario sospeso sul ghiaccio, in direzione del centro. Perde sangue da una mano ed è in gravissimo stato di shock: nel suo delirio febbricitante, parla di un misterioso uomo della sabbia. Il ragazzo si chiama Mikael e risulta scomparso da dodici anni. Da sette è stato ufficialmente dichiarato morto.

Hypnotisøren er tilbage! I Spejlmanden, der er ottende bog i Lars Keplers serie om Joona Linna, forsvinder er ung pige ved højlys dag. I jagten på den uhyggelige bortfører opsøger Joona Linna sin gamle bekendt, hypnotisøren Erik Maria Bark, for at få tilgang til afgørende informationer. Opklaringen af sagen bliver en dybt fascinerende - og skræmmende - nedstigning i det menneskelige sind. Enegængeren Joona Linnas lynende intelligente efterforskning fører ind i det mest uhyggelige psykologiske mørke.

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 Mord gesehen haben muss, ist der Zeuge nicht in der Lage, darüber zu sprechen. So traumatisch sind offenbar seine Erinnerungen.