The Nightmare - Hardcover

Kepler, Lars

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374115338 ISBN 13: 9780374115333

Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books, 2012

Synopsis

Lars Kepler returns with a piercing, bestselling sequel to The Hypnotist

After spellbinding audiences in The Hypnotist, Detective Inspector Joona Linna is back in The Nightmare, an internationally bestselling Swedish thriller published to critical acclaim in dozens of countries. As the Swedish newspaper Arbetarbladet put it, “The reader is ready to sell his own soul for the opportunity to read this book without interruption, in one sitting.”

On a summer night, police recover the body of a young woman from an abandoned pleasure boat drifting around the Stockholm archipelago. Her lungs are filled with brackish water, and the forensics team is sure that she drowned. Why, then, is the pleasure boat still afloat, and why are there no traces of water on her clothes or body?

The next day, a man turns up dead in his state apartment in Stockholm, hanging from a lamp hook. All signs point to suicide, but the room has a high ceiling, and there’s not a single piece of furniture around—nothing to climb on.

Joona Linna begins to piece together the two mysteries, but the logistics are a mere prelude to a dizzying and dangerous course of events. At its core, the most frightening aspect of The Nightmare isn’t its gruesome crimes—it’s the dark psychology of its characters, who show us how blind we are to our own motives.

About this title

Review:

Praise for The Nightmare:

‘A high-octane, taut thriller’ Marie Claire

‘One of the most exciting Swedish crime novels of recent years...It doesn’t get much better than this’ Göteborgsposten

‘Intricate detective work and heart-ticking suspense’ Boston Globe

‘Joona Linna is quietly assured and as smart as a bag full of Morses’ Metro

Praise for Lars Kepler:

‘Kepler’s plots are always thrilling, but The Sandman is one of the most hair-raising crime novels published this year’ The Sunday Times

‘Hurtles along ... full of nuanced detail which sets it far above the average thriller ... You’ll be terrified’ Evening Standard

‘Taking Europe by storm...ferocious, visceral storytelling that wraps you in a cloak of darkness’ Daily Mail

‘Deeply scarifying stuff’ Independent

‘Kepler has a direct line to a very dark place in the human soul’ Lev Grossman, Time

About the Author:

Lars Kepler is a pseudonym for a literary couple who live and write in Sweden.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0374115338
• ISBN 13: 9780374115333
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 500