The Sandman (Killer Instinct Book 4) [B1341]

2018 HCDJ in nice clean condition. #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. This installment in the Killer Instinct Series tells the chilling story of a manipulative serial killer and the two brilliant police agents who must beat him at his own game, Detectives Joona Linna and Saga Bauer. 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 late-and before he gets inside her head.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Unless you've been living in a bunker for the past few months, you've likely seen the hype surrounding Lars Kepler's novel The Sandman. While this is technically the fourth book in the Joona Linna series, it's easily read as a standalone, and if you are going to break out of order I can't think of a better one to do so with than this. If you enjoy gritty, dark, hard-boiled crime fiction, this is a must read."; "This is my favorite book out of all from the Joona Linna series, the suspense, Saga's story and how she managed to go through the mission, I am definitely obsessed with her character and I didn't expect that ending!"; "This was the best book I have read in a long time. I was gripped from the start and found I was unable to predict where the plot was going."