The Hypnotist

A novel

De: Lars Kepler

Narrado por: Saul Reichlin

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first of the Killer Instinct series featuring Detective Joona Linna: a triple murder, the one surviving witness—a boy with no memory of what happened—and the hypnotist hired to help uncover the truth.

“Full of surprises and more than enough twists to keep those pages turning well into the night.” —NPR

The police are desperate for information on the triple homicide. Detective Joona Linna enlists the help of hypnotist Erik Maria Bark. But when Bark unlocks the secrets in the boy’s memory, he triggers a terrifying chain of events that will put all their lives in jeopardy.

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“Full of surprises and more than enough twists to keep those pages turning well into the night.” —NPR

“Compellingly grisly.” —Vogue

“A gripping series of twists and turns.... A natural successor to the Stieg Larsson series.” —Parade

“A pulse-pounding debut that’s already a native smash.” —Financial Times (London)

Too long

Story seemed to go on forever with too many plot lines. Also too unbelievable that someone who has been popping pills for years can just stop cold turkey without much problem and that a daughter is lighting cigarettes around her mother’s oxygen machine!

Well written

I ended up trying one of Lars Kepler Joona Linna books in the middle of the series. Had this been the first one I don't know if I would have invested more time into them. In the middle of the book there's a long chapter, over an hour, all a flashback of the hypnotist's earlier life 10 years earlier. It's all about how he drinks and is unfaithful to his wife and sex escapades. Completely unnecessary. No wonder I've spent so much of my life having to deal with the fact that Swedes are oversexed etc. I'm nothing like that which luckily my American husband understands and knows. I never knew until I came to the US that Swedes have such an attitude. I don't appreciate it. I also felt it was completely unnecessary in in murder mystery book. I almost stopped reading/listening at that point. I fast forwarded through those sections.

On the upside the book is well written and brings me back to Stockholm though I have fun correcting the pronunciation of street names and other landmarks. Narrator did a good job.

Great series

Good writing, easy to listen to
Good narration
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Great detailed story

I love that this author gives many little details and ties them all up neatly by the end. There is nothing left unfinished. Excellent reading amazing characters. Loved it.

Gripping and fascinating

What a treat! A brilliantly narrated, fast moving and chaotic story involving a multitude of fascinatingly complex, seriously flawed characters.

Nonstop suspense

I recently discovered this author. I am hooked on the characters. Great story line, keeps you wondering.

It is an OK story...lots of fluff. Unnecessary erotica. Good for a B grade TV series.

The story is meh. The narrator has a strange accent. Specially when it comes to pronouncing T, V, W. It gets worse when he tries to imitate a Finnish person speaking Swifish with an accent in English :)
All in all 6 out of 10.

The book was pretty good

I enjoyed the narrator and the story was decent. I usually listen to Pendergast or The Oregon Files so I didn't really care for all the affairs and fighting between eric and Simon. Boring! If you like drama you will enjoy this story.

Great story

Great thriller, good story, psychological thriller , gave me a moment to think about hypnosis, keeping me to listen all the time.

A plain old good detective story.

What a relief this listen was after a series of horrible books. It was had a reasonable amount of suspense. My only criticism is that the women in the story are clumsy and weak.