“The Hypnotist is a rare beast: a Swedish thriller on a high international level with a smart, effective and surprising plot. The narrative has a skillful, refined, pulsating drive and the writing is sharp, convincing and multilayered.” ―Kristianstadsbladet (Sweden) “The Hypnotist is--yes--impossible to put down.

The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler is the 1st in the Detective Joona Linna series. Series Background: Homicide Detective Joona Linna works for the National Criminal Investigation Department in Sweden. His father was a policeman who was killed on the job when Joona was 12, so he was raised by his mother.

Unfolding against the backdrop of Sweden's haunting landscapes, The Hypnotist marks the American debut of a mesmerizing thriller that has topped bestseller lists throughout Europe. Taking the genre to new heights, each chapter delivers a heart-stopping turn in a world where the mind may be the deadliest weapon.

The Hypnotist (Swedish: Hypnotisören) is a crime novel by the Swedish husband-wife writing team of Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, published under the name Lars Kepler. It was first published in Sweden in 2009 and translated into English in 2011 by Ann Long .

Hypnotisören (The Hypnotist) (2012) - Rotten Tomatoes Celebrated filmmaker Lasse Hallstrom adapts Lars Kepler's bestseller to tell the story of a psychiatrist who employs hypnotism as a means of...

The Hypnotists (The Hypnotists #1) [Gordon Korman] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Is it a gift . . . or is it a curse? Jax Opus can use his color-changing eyes to make people do things they don't want to do. (Only his color-blind best friend

"Hypnosis, you know, it ain't as easy as it seems", The Hypnotists (The Hypnotists, #1). "The Hypnotists' By Gordon Korman is a science fiction novel about a boy that comes from a family of hypnotists, and slowly learns his powers. While learning, he is faced with an organization that say they can change the world with his powers.

The Hypnotist is a 1957 British thriller film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Paul Carpenter, Patricia Roc and Roland Culver. It follows a hypnotist who attempts to convince one of his patients to murder his own wife, whom he has grown sick of. It was based on a play by Falkland Cary.

After a young woman and her parents are murdered by a killer determined to wipe out the entire family, Detective Inspector Joona Linna works with a psychiatrist to hypnotize the son who narrowly escaped death in order to find the one surviving daughter before the murderer does.