The Mirror Man
A novel
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4.5 • 91 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
#1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER • Detective Joona Linna is on the trail of a kidnapper who targets teenage girls and makes their worst nightmares a reality.
"Dark, disturbing, and chillingly relentless. Picture Hannibal Lecter sitting down to channel Stieg Larsson and then dial it way, way up!" —Brad Thor, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Black Ice
Sixteen-year-old Jenny Lind is kidnapped in broad daylight on her way home from school and thrown into the back of a truck. She’s taken to a dilapidated house, where she and other girls face horrors far beyond their worst nightmares. Though they’re desperate to escape, their captor foils everyone of their attempts.
Five years later, Jenny’s body is found hanging in a playground, strung up with a winch on a rainy night. As the police are scrambling to find a lead in the scant evidence, Detective Joona Linna recognizes an eerie connection between Jenny’s murder and a death declared a suicide years before. And when another teenage girl goes missing, it becomes clear to Joona that they’re dealing with a serial killer—and his murderous rampage may have just begun.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Kepler's stellar eighth Killer Instinct novel (after 2020's Lazarus), Joona Linna, a detective with Sweden's National Operations Unit, looks into the case of a woman found hanged in a Stockholm playground. Her killer attached a winch to a jungle gym before slipping a wire noose around her neck. The discovery that the victim is Jenny Lind, who vanished five years earlier when she was a 16-year-old, adds additional mysteries—her whereabouts since her disappearance and why her captor decided to kill her now. Unfortunately, the one witness who may have seen the murder while walking his dog in the middle of the night suffers from memory lapses following an ice-fishing accident in which his daughter died years earlier. Linna comes to believe Lind was murdered by a serial killer, who may have more women in captivity. The ability of Kepler (the pen name of Alexander and Alexandra Ahndoril) to ratchet up the tension en route to a stunning reveal and an eminently fair solution is remarkable. This merits comparisons with the best of Thomas Harris.
Customer Reviews
Perfection
Best book I’ve read in a long long time!!.
The Mirror Man.
Another fascinating and engrossing read from these authors. I love the Joona Linna character. I hope the authors have more books in the works for this character.
The Mirror Man
Wow - this is very intense and parts are difficult to read. I appreciate that the book brings attention to the serious problems of violence against women, but it also implies that seriously mentally ill people are violent. That stereotype prevents people from getting help. At first, I thought this was about a person seeing ghosts like in The Shining, but then I thought Dennis was too good to be true. One part reminded me of an especially dark moment in The Nightingale. The ending was brighter and hopeful, but the reader had to go to some very dark and terrifying places to get there.