The Mirror Man: The most chilling must-read thriller of 2023

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In fact, it's a great book, four stars just because giving a five to a detective about a maniac (if it's not "The Silence of the Lambs") is nonsense. But it's great within the genre. A married couple of beautiful Swedish writers with the same name for two, writing under the pseudonym Lars Kepler, managed to change the first negative opinion that I had with Lazarus. This book really stayed in my mind. Like I said I questioned quite a bit about it. Things along the line of how are they going to explain this. How are they going to explain that. This really doesn't make sense and either does that. Yet it never ever came close to losing me as a reader and actually pushed me forward wanting to know those answers and as I said everything is delivered in a very convincing way. She is thinking about her father. About his sad face as she shouted at him that morning, the scratched glass on his wristwatch, his resigned gestures as she stormed out. Jenny Lind was abducted on her way home from school and taken to a remote location where she and other girls face many horrors. Five years later her body is found in a playground with few clues as to where she’s been and who her killer is. Detective Joona Linna gets involved and when another girl goes missing, he fears a killer is escalating his activities. She carefully lowers her head to her hands and presses the rusty blade to the plastic tie with as much force as she can.

Thanks to Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group – Knopf and the writing team of Lars Kepler for a digital ARC of this novel via NetGalley and the opportunity to provide an honest review. Opinions are mine alone and are not biased in any way. Publication date is currently set for January 18, 2022. This review was originally posted at Mystery and Suspense Magazine. Lying among the lumps of dry mud and dark leaves, Jenny notices a front tooth. Adrenaline surges through her. Her heart is pounding so hard that she can barely breathe. There is no sign of anyone else nearby, no other cars.

Vijf jaar na haar verdwijning wordt het levenloze lichaam gevonden van een jonge vrouw. De enige ooggetuige van de moord is een warrige man, die niet zeker weet wat hij gezien heeft. Joona Linna roept de hulp in van hypnotiseur Erik Maria Bark, zodat de man onder hypnose zijn herinneringen weer kan oproepen. Her body is shaking all over, and she tries to get up, but the plas- tic tie has caught on something.

Jenny’s phone was on the table beside her mug. It was switched to silent, but the notifications on the screen still caught her eye, and that annoyed her father. He thought she was being disrespectful, and she was frustrated by how unfair it was. She feels a searing pain in her ankle when she lands, but takes a step forward anyway, managing to maintain her balance.The writing was very repetitive, as if the authors thought that the reader would be oblivious to details. As for the audiobook, the version of the novel performed by Igor Knyazev is beautiful as always. I can't help but mention the Godfather of the local scale Stefano and the range of female images, from absolutely charming to frightening. Jenny gets up on shaking legs and realizes she won’t be able to run away from the driver into the woods. Dark, disturbing, and chillingly relentless. Picture Hannibal Lecter sitting down to channel Stieg Larsson and then dial it way, way up!”

Now her lifeless body is found hanging in a playground. But there is no evidence and only one witness - a man who cannot remember what he saw. A sudden wave of dizziness hits her, and she is just about to give up when the plastic snaps. The knife has cut through the tie. Jenny realizes that this must be so that the side can be rolled up for loading. If she can follow the metal pole across the roof with her bound hands, she might be able to get to the other side, open the cover, and shout for help. The ground sways, and she slumps to her side, looking up at the officer’s motorcycle through the grass. She can see movement reflected in the shiny exhaust pipe. She blinks, trying to make her eyes focus, and sees that the bars are missing on the other side of the trailer, where the curtain is reinforced with five rows of sewn-in poles instead.Another wave of nausea rises up inside her, but she doesn’t have time to wait. The journey could be over at any moment.

Lars Kepler wanted to use a hypnotist because of the intimacy involved in the discipline. Criminal detectives want to get close to the perpetrators and victims of crimes — and a hypnotist can “actually step into people memories.” Kepler turned to Alexander’s older bother for help with writing about the hypnotism, for he is a practicing hypnotist who has written books on the topic. Seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is unpredictable, and as wily as he is cruel: he foils every one of their desperate attempts to escape . . . and once caught, they rarely survive their punishment.

She tries to get up and vomits again, hears them talking as she spits into the grass. A voice says, “She’s my daughter,” explaining that it isn’t the first time she has run away and gone on a drinking spree.