Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of husband and wife team Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril (b. 1966) and Alexander Ahndoril (b. 1967), authors of the Joona Linna series.  …

… Detective Superintendent at the Swedish police’s National Operations Department …

The Hypnotist is book #1. (2009)

This couple are recently the best-selling authors – Swedish or international – in Sweden, across all categories.

I do like the Detective Inspector Joona Linna.

Personally I found this book a bit slow. There is some repetition that could have been avoided.

GET AN EDITOR is what I’m saying.

I have those same complaints with many of the Nordic Noir books—also called Scandinavian crime fiction. It was true of the Dragon Tattoo books. True of Hypnotist.

A Swedish film adaptation was made in 2012 by Lasse Hallström.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.