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Loading... Sandmannen (original 2012; edition 2013)by Lars Kepler, Jonas Malmsjö
Work InformationThe Sandman by Lars Kepler (2012)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Det Ă€r en kall vinternatt nĂ€r Mikael Frost hittas pĂ„ en jĂ€rnvĂ€gsbro. Han Ă€r inte bara svĂ„rt nerkyld utan han Ă€r mager, Ă€ngslig pĂ„ grĂ€nsen till hysteri och verkar ha legionĂ€rsjukan. Det har gĂ„tt sju Ă„r sedan Mikael Frost blev dödsförklarad â efter att ha varit försvunnen i fyra Ă„r. Allt tyder pĂ„ att han Ă€r Jurek Walters sista offer innan han greps av kriminalkommissarie Joona Linna. Men Jurek har dömdes till rĂ€ttspsykiatrisk vĂ„rd och har suttit isolerad sedan dess. Vart har Mikael befunnit sig under alla dessa Ă„r? DĂ„ han försvunnit tillsammans med sin yngre syster Felicia, som han insisterar pĂ„ att ha suttit instĂ€ngd med, pĂ„börjar en sökning efter henne â och det Ă€r brĂ„ttom; med tanke pĂ„ att Mikael har legionĂ€rsjukan antas hans syster vara minst lika sjuk som honom. Men Mikael har knappt nĂ„gra minnen alls om den plats han suttit inlĂ„st vilket endast lĂ€mnar rikskriminalen ett alternativ: att nĂ€ssla sig in i huvudet pĂ„ Jurek Walter för att lösa gĂ„tan om hur han lyckats hĂ„lla dessa tvĂ„ ungdomar vid liv trots att han befunnit sig i isolering. Detta Ă€r möjligen den bĂ€sta delen i bokserien om Joona Linna. Det har hintats om Jurek Walter sedan andra boken men det Ă€r först nu som det Ă€gnas en hel bok Ă„t bara den berĂ€ttelsen â och det Ă€r verkligen vĂ€rt vĂ€ntan. För det Ă€r en bok som höll mig pĂ„ hel spĂ€nn frĂ„n första till sista sidan; och dĂ€r det kĂ€ndes som vad som helst kunde hĂ€nda. Men det var Ă€ven ett otroligt intressant Ă€mne som Kepler har valt ut. Som vanligt finns det knappt en lös trĂ„d nĂ€r boken vĂ€l Ă€r slut â och jag kan erkĂ€nna att Jureks motiv faktiskt gav honpom lite, lite sympati frĂ„n min sida. Inte för att jag vill rĂ€ttfĂ€rdiga alla hemska hĂ€ndelser innan och under denna bok; men man kan till viss del förstĂ„ honom. Med det som bakgrund vill jag Ă€nnu en gĂ„ng berömma Kepler för alla bokens karaktĂ€rer. Det Ă€r mĂ„nga jag gillar och nĂ€stan dubbelt sĂ„ mĂ„nga som jag avskyr â men det finns inte en enda som jag inte gillar som karaktĂ€r. De har bra sidor, de har dĂ„liga sidor. De tar bra beslut, de tar dĂ„liga beslut. En del har hemligheter som fĂ„r en att bli mörkrĂ€dd. Trots att jag berömmer Keplers böcker som de bĂ€sta svenska kriminalböcker jag har lĂ€st sĂ„ vill jag nĂ€stan Ă€nnu mer berömma dem för deras karaktĂ€rer. Det enda att notera Ă€r vĂ€l att man skulle kunna önska en mer mĂ„ngfaldig karaktĂ€rslista; som olika ursprung, kulturer, etc. Jag Ă€lskar Keplers förmĂ„ga att fĂ„nga det svenska vardagslivet men det Ă€r viktigt att förstĂ„ att den svenska vardagen Ă€r inte bara innebĂ€r Sven Svensson vars familj kan spĂ„ras inom Norden sedan sju hundra Ă„r tillbaka utan Ă€ven Sven Svensson som Ă€r hĂ€lften somalier och hĂ€lften palestinier. Det Ă€r bara sĂ„ det svenska folket ser ut; och det behöver representeras mer. I was beyond excited when I won this in a Goodreads giveaway! So, thank you Goodreads and Knopf Publishing. This book was so creepy good! I mean so fantastically disturbing, spine-chilling, hair raising good! I was white-knuckling the book the whole time. This is the 4th in the series, but at no time did I feel lost or confused. As soon as I was finished, I started looking to see where I could buy, even though Iâm on a book buying band, the others in the series. And that ending.. Oh My Goodness! WTH! That was the BEST of all endings! Bravo Lars Keplar! And for those who didnât know, the author Lars Kepler is a pseudonym used by Swedish writer couple Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril. Highly Recommend! no reviews | add a review
Fiction.
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HTML:â??With its tight, staccato chapters and cast of dangerous wraiths lurking everywhere, The Sandman is a nonstop fright.â? â??Janet Maslin, The New York Times The #1 internationally best-selling thriller from the author of The Hypnotist tells the chilling story of a manipulative serial killer and the two brilliant police agents who must try to beat him at his own game. Late one night, outside Stockholm, Mikael Kohler-Frost is found wandering. Thirteen years earlier, he went missing along with his younger sister. They were long thought to have been victims of Sweden's most notorious serial killer, Jurek Walter, now serving a life sentence in a maximum security psychiatric hospital. Now Mikael tells the police that his sister is still alive and being held by someone he knows only as the Sandman. Years ago, Detective Inspector Joona Linna made an excruciating personal sacrifice to ensure Jurek's capture. He is keenly aware of what this killer is capable of, and now he is certain that Jurek has an accomplice. He knows that any chance of rescuing Mikael's sister depends on getting Jurek to talk, and that the only agent capable of this is Inspector Saga Bauer, a twenty-seven-year-old prodigy. She will have to go under deep cover in the psychiatric ward where Jurek is imprisoned, and she will have to find a way to get to the psychopath before it's too lateâ??and before he gets insi No library descriptions found. |
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Recently I was approved for the ARC of book 8 in this series, so I'm trying to make my way through the rest of the books before I need to read that one. I still really enjoy this series. This book deals more directly with an antagonist that has been in the background of previous books. This is pretty common in these long detective series. I usually don't like this; when I used to watch crime shows I would usually stop after the first season or two because I only really like villains of the week stories rather than long-term villains. However, I actually enjoyed it here.
I didn't love the Saga plotline. It just seemed like a really bad idea to begin with and it only really mattered at the very end of the book. I'm still not sure if I like her character or not so that may be part of the problem. Overall though, I thought this was a very well laid out mystery and I would have read it a lot quicker if I wasn't in the middle of finals. I'm excited to carry on in this series with book 5! ( )