Stalker: A novel
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“Kepler is a virtuoso at delivering scenes of suspense.” —The New York Times Book Review
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. Detective Margot Silverman is put in charge of the investigation, and soon asks Detective Joona Linna for help. Linna, in turn, recruits Erik Maria Bark, the hypnotist and expert in trauma, with whom Linna's worked before. Bark is leery of forcing people to give up their secrets. But this time, Bark is the one hiding things.
Years before, he had put a man away for an eerily similar crime, and now he's beginning to think that an innocent man may be behind bars—and a serial killer still on the loose…
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Lars Kepler. (2019). Stalker: A novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Lars Kepler. 2019. Stalker: A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
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“Kepler is a virtuoso at delivering scenes of suspense.” —The New York Times Book Review
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More trademark murder and mayhem from the pseudonymous mysterian Kepler (The Sandman, 2018, etc.), bringing in the back bench to solve the various unpleasantries.Joona Linna, the tough but anguished Stockholm cop, has stalked off, wanting to be alone. Margot Silverman, pregnant and miserable, is working without him, trying to keep a step ahead of the bad guys in the endless war of good and evil. She's perplexed: A taunting video has turned up at police headquarters that shows a young woman who will soon turn up dead--and nastily so. "A serial rapist who's been treated, possibly chemically castrated," theorizes Margot, who's seen such things before, about the stalker/murderer. More nasty killing ensues: "Susanna realizes she's not going to make it. Ice-cold anguish opens up like a chasm as she stops fighting for her life." It's vintage Kepler: There's no nice way to leave the world, if he has anything to say about it. Now, in the fifth novel in his ongoing series, he brings back the lead character in the inaugural volume, the hypnotist and psychologist Erik Maria Bark, a bundle of neuroses himself. He has ideas about who might be behind the string of killings, but he's also caught up in intrigue of his own making, which complicates an already tangled tale that picks its way through a barrel of red herrings. Along the way, Joona re-enters the picture, just this side of being a vigilante and just this side of breaking down, badly fed and migraine-riddled. No bad guy can hope to escape the justice-bent trio--but is it a guy at all? Kepler's story is skillfully laid out, but it doesn't stand alone as well as the preceding four volumes; the reader will want to catch up with them before attempting this one, with its unexpected villain and its depiction of a Sweden that, though tidy and with good health care and progressive prisons, seems to be a pretty dangerous place to find oneself.Longtime fans won't be disappointed--but only those longtime fans are likely to catch all the nuances in Kepler's whodunit.COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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After faking his death to protect his family from a serial killer in The Sandman (2018), legendary detective Joona Linna returns to Stockholm hoping to clear his friend, renowned psychiatrist Erik Maria Bark, of serial murder charges. Margot Silverman, the National Police's new expert on serial killers, has moved into Linna's office but hasn't yet managed to step into his shoes. She and her partner are hunting a killer who taunts police with voyeuristic videos taken through his victims' windows moments before he strikes. Hoping to use hypnosis to draw clues from a witness' memory, Margot consults Bark. For Bark, the new case awakens the shameful memory of a hauntingly similar crime. Years ago, he discarded alibi information that his patient, Rocky Kyrklund, revealed under hypnosis, and Kyrklund was subsequently (wrongfully?) convicted of murder. In a startling turn, Bark faces police scrutiny when he's connected to each of the new killer's victims. His only hope is Linna, who suspects the killer is the Preacher, a malevolent shadow buried in Kyrklund's memories. Kepler delivers a page-turning hunt for an expertly camouflaged killer that draws shocking connections between the hallowed halls of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm's prostitution and drug scene, and Sweden's rural churches. The author's dark, complex procedurals are must-reads for readers drawn to Stieg Larsson, Mons Kallentoft, and Michael Connelly.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)
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When the Swedish National Crime Unit starts receiving videos of young women, with the first woman later found viciously slashed to pieces, Det. Joona Linna turns to hypnotist and trauma expert Erik Maria Bark for help. Fifth in the series, following The Sandman (Mar. 2018); Black Lizard: Vintage Crime is publishing new translations of the first three titles.
Copyright 2018 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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