Lars Kepler - The Rabbit Hunter

[Ken, Moderator (U.S.A.)]

Edelweiss + has The Rabbit Hunter by Lars Kepler to be published 14 January 2020. Sweden. This was published 3 May 2018.

It begins with a nursery rhyme. Nineteen minutes later you die…

The sixth gripping thriller in Lars Kepler’s bestselling series featuring Joona Linna. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.

There’s a face at the window.
A stranger wearing a mask stands in the shadow of a garden. He’s watching his first victim through the window. He will kill him slowly, make it last – play him a nursery rhyme – make him pay.

A killer in your house.
There’s only one person the police can turn to – ex-Detective Joona Linna – but he’s serving time in a high-security prison. So they offer him a chance to secure his freedom: help superintendent Saga Bauer track down the vicious killer known as The Rabbit Hunter, before he strikes again.

Only one man can stop him.
Soon another three victims have been murdered and Stockholm is in the grip of terror. Joona Linna must catch a disturbed predator, whose trail of destruction leads back to one horrific night of violence – with consequences more terrifying than anyone could have imagined…

[Ken, Moderator (U.S.A.)]

My one paragraph review:

Joona in jail!!! I must have missed something somewhere, and he gets out for working on a case for the police and gets his own office. And he has a new love interest hiding on a gardening nursery out in the country. But I regress, what we have is a murder that is very well trained killing people for a specific reason. This we will find out but it takes another killing to find out the reason. Joona finds that there was a rape on an exclusive school 30 years before. What he doesn't find out was that Rex who was questioned had a son that he now loved and would quit drinking to make it up to him, because he had lived with his ex-wife all his life up until now. Saga ( a co-worker) was working on the case from another angle and contributed much needed information about people. The case is really involved and you have many interesting stories to go with it. The ending is a possible another book. I would recommend this story to people who like noir stories.