The hypnotist
Subtitle: a Joona Linna novel
By: by Lars Kepler ; translated from the Swedish by Neil Smith
Contributors: Smith, Neil, 1964- translator
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 565
ISBN-13: 9780525433125
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Murder victims; Boys; Children of murder victims; Identification; Hypnotists; Murderers; Fiction
Work titles: Hypnotisören
Description: "A gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. There's only one surviving witness--the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. The boy was supposed to to be the fourth victim, but somehow he survived. He's suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and lapsed into a catatonic state. Desperate for information, Linna enlists Dr. Erik Maria Bark to hypnotize the boy, hoping to uncover the killer through his memories. Bark has sworn he would never do this kind of work again because of the long-term effects it can have on a patient's psyche. But Linna won't relent, and the doctor breaks his promise. When he hypnotizes the victim, a long and terrifying chain of events comes to light. This sensational thriller will have you mesmerized from its very first page"--
Notes: "Originally published in Sweden as Hypnotisoren by Albert Bonniers Forlag, Stockholm, in 2009"--ECIP galley.