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The Hypnotist [Hardcover]

Lars Kepler (Author)
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Book Description

Release Date: 12 May 2011

Read the number one Scandinavian crime bestseller taking the world by storm

Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm.

Detective Inspector Joona Linna is faced with a boy who witnessed the gruesome murder of his family. He’s suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and is comatose with shock.

Linna’s running out of time. The killer’s on the run and, seemingly, there are no clues. Desperate for information, Linna enlists disgraced specialist Dr Erik Maria Bark, a hypnotist who vowed never to practice again.

As the hypnosis begins, a long and terrifying chain of events unfurls with reverberations far beyond Linna’s case.

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  • Hardcover: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Blue Door (12 May 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0007359101
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007359103
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15.6 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (130 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 188,853 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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‘The thriller that’s taking Europe by storm…ferocious, visceral storytelling that wraps you in a cloak of darkness. It’s stunning.’ DAILY MAIL

‘One of the best - if not the best - Scandinavian crime thrillers I’ve read.’ RED

‘All the hallmarks of a classic…a brutal crime, a missing child and an irresistible detective. this is crime writing at its most devilishly involving.’ MARIE CLAIRE

‘If the post-Stieg Larsson boom was ebbing, Kepler promises to revitalise the genre by bringing a sulphurous whiff of Hannibal Lecter to this case.’ FINANCIAL TIMES

‘A genuine chiller…commanding and deeply scarifying stuff.’ INDEPENDENT

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‘The thriller that’s taking Europe by storm…ferocious, visceral storytelling that wraps you in a cloak of darkness. It’s stunning.’
DAILY MAIL

‘All the hallmarks of a classic…Tense, clever and multilayered…this is crime writing at its most devilishly involving.’
MARIE CLAIRE

‘If the post-Stieg Larsson boom was ebbing, Kepler promises to revitalise the genre by bringing a sulphurous whiff of Hannibal Lecter to this case…it’s a pulse-pounding debut that is already a native smash.’
FINANCIAL TIMES

‘A genuine chiller…commanding and deeply scarifying stuff.’ THE INDEPENDENT

‘A rollercoaster ride of a thriller full of striking twists.’
MAIL ON SUNDAY

‘Riddled with irresistible, nail-biting suspense, this first-class Scandinavian thriller is one of the best I’ve ever read.’ AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S WEEKLY

‘An horrific and original read.’
THE SUN

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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62 of 65 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping, entertaining thriller 26 April 2011
By H. Eaton VINE™ VOICE
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'The Hypnotist' is a highly entertaining, gripping thriller, full of twists, turns and blind alleys, keeping you guessing right to the end. The writing is very accessible and brings the story to life in a very visual way - it's easy to imagine what the film of the book would be like.

The story is about a hypnotist, Erik Maria Bark, who hasn't practised his craft for over 10 years. He is called in to help with a case of a boy found badly injured but alive in his family home, after the rest of his family has been brutally murdered. Erik is pressurised into hypnotising the boy to see if he can remember anything which will help the police to find the killer. This foray back into practising hypnosis sets off a chain of events which involves the rest of his family and which forces him to re-examine his past and the reasons why he had to stop being a hypnotist.

I was worried that the book would wildly dramatise hypnosis as a magical, black art. It does misrepresent it to some degree, but I forced myself to accept this as a literary device so if you're like me and find the hypnotism angle off-putting, try to look at it that way!

I was frustrated with some aspects of the novel - for example there are aspects of the story that are not properly resolved and, to me, it felt as though the authors lost interest with the first part of the story and were keen to move on to the next! In parts it felt disjointed - at the beginning we get chapters devoted to different characters' take on the same time period, but this device isn't employed further into the book and I found that a bit odd. Lars Kepler is actually a pseudonym for a literary couple - Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril and I wonder if the joint-authorship was in any way responsible for the occasional disjointedness.

In spite of that, this is a great read and, apparently, will be the first in a series of books featuring Detective Inspector Joona Linna ... I very much look forward to the second.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Bestseller by numbers 3 July 2011
By Tony Mynard
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Overblown grand guignol, far too loosely plotted and with badly drawn characters. Fashionable "issues" thrown in to convince reviewers that it's saying something important; it isn't. Leaves an overwhelming impression of a literary couple (as the writers apparently are) who realized they weren't making enough out of their good stuff so analysed all the cliches which infest bestsellers and mixed them up to create this. Pity.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars A book of two halves; entertaining but ultimately empty 7 Jun 2011
By Rowena Hoseason TOP 50 REVIEWER
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The Hypnotist is a cut above the average pulp thriller but it's not as intellectually or emotionally satisfying as some of the great Scandinavian noir of late -- fans of Larsson, Nesbo, Indridasson and Fossum will find it lacking in cohesion. It also loses that special Nordic form of underlying tension and uncertainty which usually informs the genre; it's there at the beginning, but before long the story has slumped into a rather mundane domestic dispute and an unlikely investigation into a missing child.
That's a shame because the opening chapters and back story of the key character, the hypnotist, are fascinating and hold a lot of promise. But then that strand becomes swamped by a rather more dry police procedural. The result was an interesting novel, but not one which I would want to read again to re-live the experience. The detective didn't feel like a fully realised character to me, so if he is to be the central point of a whole series of books then he would need to be rather better defined -- his flashes of inspiration and unruly nature need to be better explored to make him compelling.
I'd grab this to read if stuck for a few hours, but wouldn't choose another book by the author if I could pick up something by Fred Vargas or Ake Edwardsson instead.
7/10
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