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A review by candacesiegle_greedyreader
Lazarus by Lars Kepler
5.0
Is "Lazarus" the kind of book you want to be reading during a pandemic? It's dark, it's deep, it's twisty. You will not be able to stop reading. Are you in the space?
So if you are in the "Yep, I'm up for this" camp, this novel will definitely take you out of the current mayhem and fully involve you in another.
Superintendent Joona Linna of the Swedish National Crime Division has been tormented by Jurek Walter, a genius of horror, who punishes his victims by destroying those closest to them. Trying carefully not to spoil the earlier novels for new readers, Walter is believed to have been dispatched by Joona's colleague Saga Bauer when the skull of Joona's wife is found in a murder victim's freezer.
Saga is sure Walter is dead--she shot him and saw the body. But Joona believes that he is alive and has a new pattern. His number one priority is to keep his college student daughter safe.
"Lazarus" is one of the most satisfying Joona books, and that's saying something. The psychological exploration of the criminal mind is riveting and accessible, Joona and Saga are deep characters with complex relationships with others, fully human and achiching fallible. You can read this novel as a stand-alone, but I recommend new readers start with "The Hypnotist" to fully experience the arc of Joona's story. Kudos to the translator as well for smooth, natural reading text!
~~Candace Siegle, Greedy Reader
So if you are in the "Yep, I'm up for this" camp, this novel will definitely take you out of the current mayhem and fully involve you in another.
Superintendent Joona Linna of the Swedish National Crime Division has been tormented by Jurek Walter, a genius of horror, who punishes his victims by destroying those closest to them. Trying carefully not to spoil the earlier novels for new readers, Walter is believed to have been dispatched by Joona's colleague Saga Bauer when the skull of Joona's wife is found in a murder victim's freezer.
Saga is sure Walter is dead--she shot him and saw the body. But Joona believes that he is alive and has a new pattern. His number one priority is to keep his college student daughter safe.
"Lazarus" is one of the most satisfying Joona books, and that's saying something. The psychological exploration of the criminal mind is riveting and accessible, Joona and Saga are deep characters with complex relationships with others, fully human and achiching fallible. You can read this novel as a stand-alone, but I recommend new readers start with "The Hypnotist" to fully experience the arc of Joona's story. Kudos to the translator as well for smooth, natural reading text!
~~Candace Siegle, Greedy Reader