The literary debut of a married couple, writing under the pseudonym Lars Kepler, made a stunning impression on readers and listeners, critics and publishers. It is the first Swedish novel to be sold overseas with tremendous success even before it was published in Sweden.
The novel «The Hypnotist» is just the beginning of an exciting detective series. A brutally murdered man will find a brutally murdered man in the locker room of a sports club in the suburbs of Stockholm. Later, his wife and little daughter are found hacked with monstrous cruelty in his house. It looks like the killer set out to slaughter the entire family, but the badly wounded son survived. Criminal Police Commissioner Jon Lynn learns that another family member is still alive — the boy’s older sister. He understands: it is necessary to find the girl before the killer does it. In order to quickly interrogate the only witness, Jon Lynn contacts the doctor Eric Maria Barck and convinces him to hypnotize the boy. This is the only way to get a description of the offender. Eric is breaking his long-standing promise to give up hypnosis. And the chain of incredible events begins to unwind inexorably …
© Lars Kepler, 2009
Hypnotist
© E. Teplyashina, translation into Russian, 2010
© A. Bondarenko, decoration, layout, 2017
© AST Publishing House LLC, 2017
CORPUS ® Publishing House
© & ℗ Audiobook LLC, 2017
Audio Recording Producer: Tatiana Plyuta
Published by agreement with Salomonsson Agency.
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