The Sandman: Free Sampler

by Lars Kepler

Discover the number 1 Swedish thriller by the author of The Hypnotist and The Fire Witness with this free sampler.

He's Sweden's most prolific serial killer.

Jurek Walter is serving a life sentence. Kept in solitary confinement, he is still considered extremely dangerous by psychiatric staff.

He'll lull you into a sense of calm.

Mikael knows him as “the sandman”. Seven years ago, he was taken from his bed along with his sister. They are both presumed dead.

He has one target left.

When Mikael is discovered on a railway line, close to death, the hunt begins for his sister. To get to the truth, Detective Inspector Joona Linna will need to get closer than ever to the man who stripped him of a family; the man who wants Linna dead.

Kindle Edition

Published August 19, 2014

About the author

Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of critically acclaimed husband and wife team Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, authors of the No. 1 internationally bestselling Joona Linna series. With seven installments to date, the series has sold 13 million copies in 40 languages. The Ahndorils were both established writers before they adopted the pen name Lars Kepler, and have each published several acclaimed novels.

Reviews

[Georgina O'Neil · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great thriller! Defo didn't need to be nearly 600 pages long but was an exciting thriller nonetheless (especially for £1 from a chazza shop).

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this and, despite it taking me 4 weeks to read the last 60 pages, (my fault, not the novel's), it was engaging and easy to keep track of. Complex plot but not convoluted. Great characters, original plot. Cost Dad $1 to buy from the library and given we both enjoyed it, that's money very well spent ;)

[Jairam Mohan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Detailed review put up at https://mahabore.wordpress.com/2016/0...

[Melanie Collins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Terrifying!

[Victoria Norris-MacLean · Rating 5 out of 5]

A real page turner, very exciting and a great finish.

[Ruth Segre · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quite gruesome but not many surprises

[Agne Bukaty · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really really liked it, the ending was predictable and bit dragged out but stil a superb book! Couldnt put it down and couldn't wait to pick it up again

[EJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read back in 2018

[Helen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the fourth book in the Joona Linna series. A prolific serial killer (Jurek Walter) has been in a maximum security psychiatric facility for years, serving a life sentence in isolation. A young man (Mikael) has been found walking by a railroad track, ill both mentally and physically. He and his sister were abducted years earlier and believed to be victims of Jurek Walter.

Joona has always believed that Jurek did not work alone. The Sandman tells of Joona’s attempts to find the accomplice and to locate Mikael’s sister before she dies.

I found this story quite implausible and Jurek Walter’s character absurd. I much preferred Lars Kepler’s The Fire Witness which kept me engaged right to the end. I do, however, recommend this book to those who like Kepler’s previous three novels in the series. Joona Linna is an interesting character and likeable – as is his associate, Saga Bauer. I also liked the fast pace of the book and the brief chapters which are perfect for the reader who is short on time.