The Mirror Man

If you see his reflection it's already too late....

The gripping new crime novel from global thriller writing phenomenon Lars Kepler.

Seventeen-year-old Jenny is abducted in broad daylight and taken to a dilapidated, isolated house where she is chained and caged along with several other girls. Their captor is unpredictable and as wily as he is cruel: he foils every one of their desperate attempts to escape...and once caught they rarely survive their punishment.

Five years later, Jenny is found dead in a public park, and the police are scrambling to find a lead among the scant evidence. But Detective Joona Linna realizes that this murder has an eerie connection to a death that was declared a suicide years before. And now when Mia, a 17-year-old orphan, goes missing, it becomes clear to Joona that they are dealing with a serial killer - and the murderous rampage has just begun.

As the police close in on the killer, Mia and her fellow captives are plunged into ever greater danger, and Joona finds himself in a seemingly impossible race against time to save their young lives.

©2022 Lars Kepler (P)2022 Bonnier Books

awesome 👌

narrator good. book took long to get to the plot. loved the twist it was very engaging

Cheap, bad clone of the Scandinavian crime genre

Definitely one of the worst audiobooks I've ever listened to. The narration was average. Saul Reichlin is able to pronounce Swedish names OK, but as one of the other reviewers aptly put it: he has just 2 voices - male and female (the latter actually belonging to some very old lady). But the story - just awful! Paper thin characters, stupid turns force fed to the reader, detective that "instinctively" knows all, violence porn, overly wordy material. Most irritatingly, the writers have come up with a strange device - inserting a short description of what happened in the previous chapter in the inner monologue of a character of every new chapter. Like "previously on The Mirror Man" or sth. As if they suspect the readers have brain problems. Takes up a lot of the book's volume. Avoid this stupid hodge-podge that tries so badly to imitate the genre's greats. Go directly to Jo Nesbo, etc. instead.