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A Time Magazine Top 10 Fiction book for 2011One of the Wall Street Journal 's Top 10 Mysteries of the Year 2011
Prepare for The Hypnotist to cast its spell
In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there's only one surviving witness--the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes wanted this boy to die: he's suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and lapsed into a state of shock. Desperate for information, Linna sees only one option: hypnotism. He enlists Dr. Erik Maria Bark to mesmerize the boy, hoping to discover the killer through his eyes. It's the sort of work that Bark has sworn he would never do again--ethically dubious and psychically scarring. When he breaks his promise and hypnotizes the victim, a long and terrifying chain of events begins to unfurl. An international sensation, The Hypnotist is set to appear in thirty-seven countries, and it has landed at the top of bestseller lists wherever it's been published--in France, Holland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Denmark. Now it's America's turn. Combining the addictive power of the Stieg Larsson trilogy with the storytelling drive of The Silence of the Lambs, this adrenaline-drenched thriller is spellbinding from its very first page.

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The summer's likeliest new Nordic hit. --Janet Maslin, The New York Times <br> One convincing psychotic is about as much as most thriller writers can handle, but Kepler delivers them by the roomful. It makes you wonder where the Swedes have been keeping him/them all this time. I imagine a cabal of nefarious Stockholm publishers loading bulk orders of Larsson onto cargo planes bound for the U.S. while they rub their hands together over a copy of The Hypnotist stamped Not for Export. It's that good. It's the hard stuff. --Lev Grossman, Time <p> A new star enters the firmament of Scandinavian thrillerdom, joining the likes of Larsson, Nesbo and Mankell. -- Kirkus Reviews <p> <p> Does the world really need another Swedish thriller? The spellbinding exploits of Detective Inspector Joona Linna and the hypnotist he hires to solve a murder make the answer clear. -- People <p> <p> Outrageously entertaining . . . Kepler makes you feel that if homicidal maniacs really were to

<p> The Hypnotist is--yes--impossible to put down. The Hypnotist is-- yes --ingeniously put together, like a Swiss watch. The Hypnotist is-- Yes! --fabulously entertaining, even gruesomely so. But it is also a serious meditation on evil, human weakness, the infinity of the mind, and the capriciousness of fate. My wife stole it from me before I was finished reading it and tore through it. Then I stole it back, to my great pleasure! --Colin Harrison, author of The Finder<br><br> Soon there will be Stieg Larsson crime fiction people and Lars Kepler crime fiction people. I'm hereby in the latter camp. The Hypnotist is every bit the equal of the Millennium trilogy--riveting narrative momentum, fascinatingly grisly forensics, existential Nordic dread. But there's more: superior prose, no cartoony characters, and beneath all the noir, plenty of old-fashioned heart . --Kurt Andersen, author of Heyday

The summer's likeliest new Nordic hit. --Janet Maslin, The New York Times <br> One convincing psychotic is about as much as most thriller writers can handle, but Kepler delivers them by the roomful. It makes you wonder where the Swedes have been keeping him/them all this time. I imagine a cabal of nefarious Stockholm publishers loading bulk orders of Larsson onto cargo planes bound for the U.S. while they rub their hands together over a copy of The Hypnotist stamped Not for Export. It's that good. It's the hard stuff. --Lev Grossman, Time <br> <p> A worthy addition to the ever-expanding ranks of Scandinavian crime fiction. Expect caffeinated beverages, inclement weather, and severed limbs. -- Entertainment Weekly <br> Maximum intensity, both psychological and physical, is packed into [this] story. -- New York <p> A gripping series of twists and turns . . . a natural successor to the Stieg Larsson series. -- Parade <br> Full of surprises and more than enoughm

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<p>Lars Kepler is the pseudonym for a literary couple who live and write in Sweden. Their novels, including The Nightmare and The Hypnotist, have been number-one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries, including France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Holland, and Denmark. The forthcoming film version of The Hypnotist is directed by Lasse Hallstrom ( Chocolat, The Cider House Rules ).

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