Though trying to quit the bleak Nordic Noir murder mystery genre, I make an exception for Kepler.

I DO want to find out what happens to Joona Linna and Saga Bauer.

Especially Joona. He is most admirable.

Spider (2022) is 9th in the series.

Saga Bauer received a postcard with a threating message about a gun with nine white bullets – one of them intended for Joona Linna – and Saga was the only one that could save him. …

A bag with an almost completely dissolved body is found strapped to a tree in Kapellskär. A milky-white cartridge is found at the murder scene. Through complex riddles, a bestial perpetrator appears to give the police the opportunity to stop the series of murders.

Joona Linna and Saga Bauer fight side by side to solve the puzzle and save the chosen victims before it’s too late. …

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Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of husband and wife team Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril (born 1966) and Alexander Ahndoril. Best-selling author – Swedish or international – in Sweden, across all categories, genres and formats.