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- A Scandinavian detective who became an international sensation!- In 2012, this book was made into a film (directed by Lasse Hallström).Readers note the peculiar style of narration in the present tense, which has become a "trick" of the writing couple - thanks to it, the text becomes eerie and cinematic.

The series of thrillers about detective Jonah Linna and his colleagues - operative Saga Bauer and doctor Erik Maria Barka - immediately became an international sensation, having already sold a total of 12 million copies in more than 40 languages!

Late at night, a young man wanders outside Stockholm. His name is Mikael Kohler-Frost, and he went missing with his sister thirteen years ago. They were long thought to be victims of Sweden's most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, who is currently serving a life sentence in a maximum security psychiatric hospital. Now Mikael tells us that his sister is still alive and is being held captive by someone he calls the Sandman.
Many years ago, Commissioner Jonah Linna made the terrible sacrifice of arresting Jurek. He knows full well what psychological and physical torture this killer is capable of - and now it turns out he has an accomplice. The only chance to save Mikael's sister is to extract information from Jurek, and the only person who can do this is Saga Bauer, a National Security Service agent. She will have to go undercover to Jurek and try to beat the ruthless maniacal killer at his own game.

Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of the writing couple Alexandra Coelho Andoril and Alexander Andoril.