Lars Kepler, trans. from the Swedish by Neil Smith. Knopf, $27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-1-524-73224-0
Kepler (the pen name for the husband-and-wife writing team of Alexander and Alexandra Ahndoril) proves that a gifted storyteller can make something memorable from an overused plot in his nail-biting fourth novel featuring Det. Insp. Joona Linna (afte
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Lars Kepler, trans. from the Swedish by Neil Smith. Knopf, $27.95 (592p) ISBN 978-1-5247-3226-4
Kepler’s stellar fifth Joona Linna novel finds Joona, who faked his death in 2018’s The Sandman to protect his family from a serial killer, replaced as the Swedish National Police Authority’s expert on “serial killers, spree killers, and stalkers”...
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Lars Kepler, trans. from the Swedish by Neil Smith. Knopf, $27.95 (528p) ISBN 978-1-5247-3228-8
Kepler (the pen name for a husband-and-wife writing team) manage a clever and intriguing variant on the serial killer theme in their outstanding sixth novel featuring Stockholm Det. Insp. Joona Linna (after 2019’s Stalker). Linna, who’s behind bars...
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Lars Kepler, trans. from the Swedish by Laura A. Wideburg. Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Sarah Crichton, $27 (512p) ISBN 978-0374115333
Joona Linna looks into two bizarre deaths in Kepler’s complex second novel featuring the Stockholm detective inspector (after 2011’s The Hypnotist). Carl Palmcrona, the general director of the National Inspectorate of Strategic Products, which...
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Lars Kepler, trans. from the Swedish by Laura A. Wideburg. Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Sarah Crichton, $27 (512p) ISBN 978-0-374-29866-1
Insanity and evil pervade the pseudonymous Kepler’s gripping third novel featuring Stockholm Det. Insp. Joona Linna (after 2012’s The Nightmare). At a facility for troubled girls, a resident and the nurse in charge have both had their skulls crushed.
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Lars Kepler, read by Mark Bramhall. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 15 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-3156-7
While technically on administrative leave, detective Joona Linna is assigned to a case in a Swedish town where a young girl at a residential program has been found dead. He checks and double checks the curious circumstances of the death and tries to
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Lars Kepler, trans. from the Swedish by Alice Menzies. Knopf, $28.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-5933-2102-7
In Kepler’s stellar eighth Killer Instinct novel (after 2020’s Lazarus), Joona Linna, a detective with Sweden’s National Operations Unit, looks into the case of a woman found hanged in a Stockholm playground. Her killer attached a winch to a jungle...
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Lars Kepler, trans. from the Swedish by Alice Menzies. Knopf, $29 (496p) ISBN 978-0-593-32104-1
Kepler (the pen name of the married writing team Alexander and Alexandra Ahndoril) ups the ante in this pulse-pounding ninth Killer Instinct thriller featuring detective Joona Linna. The last entry, 2022’s The Mirror Man, ended with a shocker,...
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Lars Kepler, trans. from the Swedish by Neil Smith. Knopf, $28.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-5933-1783-9
In Kepler’s relentlessly grim seventh Killer Instinct novel (after 2018’s The Rabbit Hunter), Joona Linna, a superintendent with Sweden’s National Crimes Unit, who has “solved more complex murder cases than anyone else in Scandinavia,” returns to...
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Lars Kepler, trans. from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. FSG/Sarah Crichton, $27 (512p) ISBN 978-0-374-17395-1
The brutal slaying of gambling addict Anders Ek, his wife, and his younger daughter propels this outstanding thriller debut from the pseudonymous Kepler (a Swedish literary couple), introducing Stockholm detective Joona Linna. Only Ek's 15-year-old...
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Lars Kepler, read by Mark Bramhall. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, 13 CDs, 17 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-2254-1
Scandinavian sleuth Joona Linna of the National Homicide Squad has a way with odd murder cases, and in Kepler’s latest, he faces two real puzzlers. A young woman is found dead on a deserted yacht, her lungs full of water, but her body and clothes...
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