Paganini contract. Kepler Lars

Summer night aboard a deserted yacht drifting in Stockholm skewers, they find a drowned man in dry clothes. The next day, a man dies in the rich area of ​​Esthermalm. How did he manage to hang himself on a tube hook in an absolutely empty room with high ceilings, where is there nothing to climb? The chain of gloomy events is rapidly spinning. In a strange way, they are associated with the violin belonging to the Great Paganini, and a destructive contract, autumn of his name. And in vain, two lovers are trying to find salvation on deceptively friendly islands among the fjords - the impassive killer is methodically following their trace.

“Paganini’s contract” - the continuation of the detective series, the beginning of which was laid by the “hypnotist”. And in the new thriller, a terrible ball of crimes is unraveled by the commissar John Linna, a talented detective with the appearance of the movie hero and a tendency to melancholy. Lars Kepler's novels became bestsellers around the world, they are considered the standard of the Scandinavian thriller. Time magazine called “Hypnotizer” one of the ten most important books of 2010, and the film, filmed by the novel, director Lass Hallstrom, was nominated by the Swedish film Academy for the Oscar.