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The Sleepwalker
The brand new 2025 Detective Joona Linna crime thriller
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An alarm sounds in the middle of the night for a burglary in progress at a winter-closed campsite in Bredäng, outside Stockholm. The nearest police car answers the call. There is a light in one of the farthest caravans, and when the officers open the door,...
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Some nightmares you can't wake up from . . . The gripping new crime novel from the 17 million copy global bestseller Lars Kepler.
Some nightmares you can't wake up from . . . The gripping new crime novel from the 17 million copy global bestseller Lars Kepler.
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An alarm sounds in the middle of the night for a burglary in progress at a winter-closed campsite in Bredäng, outside Stockholm.
The nearest police car answers the call. There is a light in one of the farthest caravans, and when the officers open the door, they are greeted by a horrific sight. Floors, walls, and furniture are completely covered in blood. A man has been killed with an axe and brutally dismembered.
On the floor of one of the rooms lies a young man sleeping with a severed arm as a pillow. He is arrested and taken to Kronoberg prison, identified as seventeen-year-old Hugo Sand, the son of a famous writer. It turns out that Hugo suffers from an unusual kind of somnambulism that is activated by nightmares. He can either be a perpetrator or a witness, but he claims he remembers nothing from the night.
Detective Joona Linna, who is connected to the case, contacts her old friend Erik Maria Bark to use hypnosis to try to find out what happened inside the caravan. This becomes the starting point for a complicated hunt for a serial killer who has just entered an extremely active phase.
The Sleepwalker by Lars Kepler delves into this thrilling and chilling narrative, blending suspense with psychological intrigue.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781838777913
Publisher: Zaffre
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 July 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Zaffre
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 512
About the Author
Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of critically acclaimed husband and wife team Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril (b. 1966) and Alexander Ahndoril (b. 1967), authors of the No. 1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series.
With seven instalments to date, the series has sold 15 million copies in 40 languages. The Ahndorils were both established writers before they adopted the pen name Lars Kepler, and have each published several acclaimed novels.
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