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Joona Linna Series: #7
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4.3 • 45 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
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The seventh gripping thriller in Lars Kepler's bestselling series featuring Joona Linna.
Sweden's most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, was shot and killed years ago. The police moved on and managed to forget the darkness that had tainted their lives.
Now, a mysterious killer is brutally murdering Europe's most loathsome criminals. When police discover that two of the victims have connections to Detective Joona Linna, it's clear that somebody is trying to send him a message. As the body count rises, the evidence seems to point to a ghost from Joona's past . . . the most terrifying villain he's ever had to face.
Joona is convinced that his worst nightmare is about to become a reality: Jurek Walter, the man who tore apart his family, has returned to finish the job.
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In Kepler's relentlessly grim seventh Killer Instinct novel (after 2018's The Rabbit Hunter), Joona Linna, a superintendent with Sweden's National Crimes Unit, who has "solved more complex murder cases than anyone else in Scandinavia," returns to active duty after completing a community service sentence following time in prison for assault. Meanwhile, a suspected grave robber is murdered in Oslo, and in his refrigerator is the skull of Linna's late wife, which the robber apparently dug up in Sweden and brought home to Norway. The dead man has whip marks on his back, injuries similar to those Linna saw on the brother of his dead Hannibal Lecter like adversary, Jurek Walter, in a previous outing. In Germany, those same injuries show up on the body of another murdered criminal, who made a call to Linna's cellphone shortly before his death. Linna becomes convinced that Walter is still alive and recruiting men across Europe to serve as accomplices in his crimes. Kepler (the pen name of a husband-wife writing team) maintains an almost unbearable level of tension throughout and does an outstanding job of making readers fear that anyone could die a horrible death at any time. Fans of serial killer fiction won't want to miss this one.
Customer Reviews
Lazarus
Couldn’t put the book down, as usual.
Disappointing
I am a big fan of the series. However, this last book wasn’t nearly as good as the rest. It was choppy. At times it felt like a gore novel for a teen audience. Seemed like there were too many main characters for the stories to develop. Also, I thought there was a misstep with all the porn stuff. The ending was rushed and not so good.