The alarm sounds in the night. Burglars have been spotted at a Stockholm campsite. Inside a caravan, police are met with a gruesome scene. Everything is soaked in blood—the floor, the walls, everything. A person has clearly been dismembered. And there's someone else, a young man fast asleep, his head resting on a severed arm. As it turns out, he's the son of a famous writer, suffering from somnambulism. Because of his condition, he could be either the perpetrator or a witness to the carnage. Detective Inspector Joona Linna takes on the case and, after the interrogation and thanks to the hypnotist Bark, suspects this is only the beginning of a brutal series of murders... Biography (Lars Kepler) Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of Alexandra and Alexander Ahndoril. "The Hypnotist," their crime novel debut, was a sensational success in Sweden and the literary event of the year. The couple lives in Stockholm with their three children. New product