You’re Mine Now – oh boy!

Sphere knows how to undersell a book calling You’re Mine Now by Hans Koppel calling it a Swedish Thriller Phenomenon it is far more than that. This is a book that once you start to read you need to finish part in fear part in hope and when that fails in prayer. This is one of the most compulsive and graphic reads in a long time that I feared I would never want to put down. This fills all the clichés in that it really is a book that keeps you on tenterhooks, is a page turner with plenty of revenge and retribution.

Anna is a features editor on Family Life magazine and is happily married to Magnus with Hedda their 10 year old daughter. Anna attends a business conference with her colleagues once a year to plan the magazine and various feature. After the dinner they retire to the bar for a few drinks with some advertising executives, two old guys and a young buck who attracts a lot of attention from the ladies. This young buck Erik invites Anna to his hotel room and she tells him she is married, but somehow she ends up in his bed and has some great sex with him, and they then meet again for a few more sex sessions.

It is only when Anna tries to end the relationship and extricate herself from something very weird that her problems begin. Erik becomes her stalker and will not hear anything about ending the relationship. He believes she will never be able to tell of her affair too Magnus and Erik sees Magnus as the man who stands in his way of being happy with Anna. So begins the full psychological torture of stalking for Anna and everywhere she looks all she can see is Erik. Things are worse when she finds out that he has filmed their sex sessions and she really needs to break away.

As Anna tries to break away things start to happen around her that at first the police think that she is over reacting, but when things start happening a lot closer to home does Erik’s sinister activities start to attract the attention of the police. Whether that is enough to stop Erik one will just have to read the book to see how it ends after you have been drawn in by this compulsive story. ( )