The Fire Witness

Description

The No 1 Swedish bestseller by the author of The Hypnotist and The Nightmare. Flora has seen it all, but nobody believes her. The girl is dead, someone killed her. She was only fourteen years old, named Miranda, and was found in her room at the institution for young women in distress, north of Stockholm. The walls were splashed with blood, the sheets were soaked with it. None of the other girls know what happened, but one of them has fled into the night. What Flora does not know is that it is the redoubtable Joona Linna who will be investigating the worst and most puzzling crime of his career. Flora knows only she saw the girl and has seen the crime weapon that nobody can find. She knows what happened, but the police do not believe her. For one simple reason: at the time of the murder, Flora was hundreds of miles away. Yet Flora is certain that she is right. She has seen. Because she is a medium.

Reviews

'A brilliant thriller' Norrkopings Tidningar 'It's like falling down a stream, you get caught up and can hardly breathe' Dagens Nyheter 'It all goes at maximum speed and it's impossible to hit the brakes before reaching the end' Skanska Dagbladet Praise for Lars Kepler: 'Taking Europe by storm' Daily Mail 'Kepler has a direct line to a very dark place in the human soul' Lev Grossman, Time 'Commanding, deeply scarifying stuff' Independent 'More energetic than Mankell, as socially involved as Larsson, Kepler matches Jo Nesbo for gothic excitement' Weekend Australian Praise for The Nightmare: 'One of the most exciting Swedish crime novels of recent years ... It doesn't get better than this' Goteborgsposten 'A high-octane, taut thriller' Marie Claire 'Intricate detective work and heart-ticking suspense' Boston Globe Praise for The Hypnotist: 'One of the best - if not the best - Scandinavian crime thrillers I've read' RED 'A creepy and compulsive crime thriller' Mo Hayder

Author description

A No. 1 bestselling international sensation, Lars Kepler has sold in excess of 1.5 million copies of the Joona Linna series in Sweden alone. Their first thriller, The Hypnotist, has just been released as a film, directed by Lasse Hallstrom. The Fire Witness is the third thriller in the Joona Linna series following on from The Nightmare in 2012. Lars Kepler is the pseudonym for writing duo, Alexander and Alexandra Ahndoril.They live with their family in Sweden.